Allied Warships
Check out our new extensive section on all the Allied Warships during WWII in all theatres of the war.Over 21,000 ships
The What's New Archive
April 2003
2003
28 April
- Added Swedish translation for book X-Craft Raid, The.
- Added errata for book U-Boat Operations of the Second World War - Vol 1.
18:46 - The Conning Tower
Installed the Shipyards and U-boat types into the section. Now all links for these no longer go outside the Conning Tower like they used to. Should improve the section a lot. Next up: A new Flotilla section.
15:32 - The Conning Tower
Finished upgrading and validating the code of the Conning Tower. Rather large job but leaves the section much better and faster, plus easier to maintain and improve.
- Added errata for book Deutsche U-Boote 1906 - 1966.
18:45 - Added photos of 8 U-boat commanders (Dahlhaus, Dankleff, Dauter, Deckert, Dobbestein, Cohausz, Driver and Bahr).
17:38 - Allied Warships - Added 28 photos, 27 of them were British destroyers and 1 was US submarine (Sea Dog, SS-401).
16:13 - Added 3 new Galleries to the site, 2 from Tim Schwabedissen (one one the Elbe bunker in Hamburg and one on the Kilian bunker in Kiel (Conning Tower only) and another one from Karsten Peters of the Keroman bunkers in Lorient, France. 41 new images all in all.
18:45 - The Conning Tower
Added a new article by Dr. Axel Niestlé & Eric Zimmerman called The Loss of U-165 that finally offers a very plausible explanation for this elusive loss.
- Added book review for The Enemy We Killed, My Friend
18:45 - Conning Tower
Added photos of 66 Ships Attacked by U-boats. Now we have photos of 729 ships listed.
15:25 - Allied Warships - Added 44 photos, 42 of them were of US submarines (Balao class) and 2 Soviet ships.
In addition to the items shown here above we made some 1670 additions or changes in our databases during April 2003.