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Archive of Older "What's New in the Online Library of
Selected Images?" --
Entries posted in November and December 2001
This page features the Online Library's November and December
2001 "What's New?" entries and provides links to entries
posted earlier in the year.
For the more recent entries, and links to previous years'
entries, see:
What's New in the Online Library
of Selected Images;
For earlier entries from the year 2001, see:
What's New in the Online Library
of Selected Images? -- Entries posted in July through October
2001;
What's New in the Online Library
of Selected Images? -- Entries posted in May & June 2001;
What's New in the Online Library
of Selected Images? -- Entries posted in March & April 2001;
and
What's New in the Online Library
of Selected Images? -- Entries posted in January & February 2001.
- The final two weeks of the generally unlamented year 2001
witnessed the Online Library advancing along the usual fronts,
with many new ships and people added. New people are all related
to the Gualalcanal
Campaign. They include: Admiral Forrest
P. Sherman, Commanding Officer of USS Wasp
(CV-7) during her brief participation in that campaign, and
later Chief of Naval Operations; Rear Admiral Norman
Scott, who led his task force to victory in the Battle of
Cape Esperance and was killed in action in the Naval Battle of
Guadalcanal; Captain Edward
J. Moran, Commanding Officer of USS Boise
(CL-47) during the Battle of Cape Esperance; and Signalman
First Class Douglas A.
Munro, USCG, who was posthumously awarded the Medal
of Honor for heroism while evacuating Marines from an exposed
position on Guadalcanal.
New U.S. Navy ships that saw Guadalcanal action include the heavy
cruisers Chester (CA-27)
and San Francisco (CA-38),
destroyer Meredith
(DD-434), tug Vireo
(AT-144, earlier AM-52), and cargo ship Kopara
(AK-62, later AG-50). Guadalcanal-related Japanese ships
are the battleships Haruna
and Kongo.
Other U.S. Navy ships added during the past two weeks include
the World War II small seaplane tender Orca
(AVP-49); World War I patrol boats Edithena
(SP-624), Elsie III
(SP-708), Paloma
(SP-533), Skink
(SP-605) and Whistler
(SP-784); the World War I era accomodation ship Moosehead
(ID # 2047); and the Civil War era monitors Tonawanda
and Wyandotte
(originally named Tippecanoe). The last-named represents
a major reworking of one of our earliest presentations.
31 December 2001
- December's normal hectic pace has pushed our usual weekly
"What's New" reports into a fortnightly schedule, a
pattern that will probably prevail through the New Year.
In any case, the month's first two weeks saw several more ships
added to the Online Library's offerings, most of them related
to the Gualalcanal
Campaign. New U.S. Naval vessels of that description include
the heavy cruiser Salt Lake
City (CA-25), destroyers O'Brien
(DD-415) and Farenholt
(DD-491), high-speed minesweepers (former destroyers) Zane (DMS-14, formerly
DD-337) and Trever
(DMS-16, formerly DD-339) and tug Seminole
(AT-65). New Japanese ships that participated in the Guadalcanal
Campaign include the aircraft carrier Junyo,
destroyer Mutsuki
and seaplane carrier Nisshin.
Other U.S. Navy ships added during the past two weeks include
the World War II destroyer William
D. Porter (DD-579); World War I patrol boats Lynx
(SP-2), Mary Pope
(SP-291) and Lynx II
(SP-730); the WWI tug Lykens
(SP-876, later AT-56); and the Civil War monitor Manhattan.
17 December 2001
- Several new ships and people were added during November's
final week. Many of them are related to the Gualalcanal
Campaign, including: Admiral Thomas
C. Kinkaid, who commanded an aircraft carrier task force
during the campaign's two carrier battles; the Japanese aircraft
carrier Ryujo;
the U.S. light cruiser Boise
(CL-47); and the U.S. Navy fast transports (ex-destroyers)
Gregory (DD-82, later
APD-3) and Little
(DD-79, later APD-4).
Among the other new subjects posted are the World War I patrol
vessels Louise # 2
(SP-1230) and Long
Island (SP-572), the Civil War monitor Tecumseh
(which was sunk by a mine during the Battle of Mobile Bay); the
Confederate "cottonclad" ram Governor
Moore; the U.S. gunboat Varuna;
and Coxwain William McKnight,
a sailor who won the Medal of
Honor during Varuna's desperate fight with the Governor
Moore and CSS Stonewall
Jackson in April 1862.
Finally, a page of newly-discovered
photographs has been added to our existing presentation on
USS Greenwich Bay (AVP-41).
3 December 2001
- This week's new items include several ships and people involved
with the World War II Gualalcanal
Campaign. These include: Marine Corps General Alexander
A. Vandegrift, who commanded forces ashore for the campaign's
first four months and was later Commandant of the Marine Corps;
Captain Samuel N. Moore,
USN, who was killed in action in the Battle of Savo Island
while commanding the heavy cruiser USS Quincy
(CA-39); Vice Admiral Gunichi
Mikawa, who led the Japanese squadron in the Battle of Savo
Island; Mikawa's flagship in that action, the heavy cruiser Chokai; the
U.S. destroyer Buchanan
(DD-484); and the fast transport (and former destroyer) USS
Colhoun (DD-85, later
APD-2).
The week's other new presentations are the World War I patrol
vessels Linta (SP-721)
and Liberty # 3
(SP-1229), the Civil War era monitor Manayunk
(which saw all its active service under the name Ajax)
and the Confederate steamship Darlington.
26 November 2001
- As we have hinted for awhile, a major presentation is in
preparation on the 1942-43 Gualalcanal
Campaign. The introductory page is now open, and additional
pages will be added regularly over the next several months until
we have posted virtually everything we have on this crucial element
of the Second World War.
Other items added include six ships and one person. Ships include
the Civil War monitor Canonicus
and gunboat Calhoun,
World War I motor boat Letter
B and cargo ship Liberator,
World War II era escort ship Snyder
(DE-745) and the Japanese light cruiser Yubari.
The new person is Daniel
Dickinson Stevens, who received the Medal of Honor for
heroism on board USS Canonicus in 1865.
19 November 2001
- Last week saw the completion of our presentation on the old
Main Navy and Munitions
Buildings, with the posting of the last of several pages
of Interior Views
of Miscellaneous Offices in 1918-19. In addition to showing
the interior appearance of the buildings, these pages provide
an excellent picture of the World War I era Federal bureaucracy's
people and equipment.
Several ships were added that saw action during the Guadalcanal
Campaign, including three U.S. Navy destroyers and two Japanese
warships. The destroyers are USS Bagley
(DD-386), USS Ralph
Talbot (DD-390) and USS Wilson
(DD-408). The Japanese ships are the heavy cruisers Aoba and Kinugasa.
There is quite a lot on the former and very little on the latter,
reflecting the often very uneven level of pictorial coverage
available on rather similar subjects.
A pair of World War I vessels and three from the Civil War make
up the remaining new presentations. They include the WWI cargo
ship Lake Superior
(ex-War Bayonet), patrol yacht Legonia
II, Civil War monitor Saugus,
ferryboat-type gunboat Clifton
and blockade runner Colonel
Lamb.
12 November 2001
- We start November (and complete October) with more steps
toward offering a presentation on the Guadalcanal Campaign of
1942-43. Just posted is a page on the campaign's amphibious force
commander, Admiral Richmond
K. Turner, as well as several ships that served in the operation.
These include the U.S. destroyer Patterson
(DD-392), U.S. transport McCawley
(AP-10, later APA-4), and the Japanese cruiser Furutaka.
Other U.S. Navy ships added last week include the big aircraft
carrier Independence
(CVA-62, later CV-62), amphibious force flagship Appalachian
(AGC-1), World War I cargo ships Lake
Pepin and Lake
St. Regis, and the Civil War monitor Mahopac.
Also from the Civil War are the Confederate torpedo boat David and vessels
based on her design, including CSS Midge
and an unnamed steamer we will call the "Large
David", plus a page on David
C. Ebaugh, who was in charge of David's construction.
5 November 2001
This page features the Online Library's November and December
2001 "What's New?" entries and provides links to entries
posted earlier in the year.
For the more recent entries, and links to previous years'
entries, see:
What's New in the Online Library
of Selected Images;
For earlier entries from the year 2001, see:
What's New in the Online Library
of Selected Images? -- Entries posted in July through October
2001;
What's New in the Online Library
of Selected Images? -- Entries posted in May & June 2001;
What's New in the Online Library
of Selected Images? -- Entries posted in March & April 2001;
and
What's New in the Online Library
of Selected Images? -- Entries posted in January & February 2001.
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