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Archive of Older "What's New in the Online Library of
Selected Images?" --
Entries posted in November & December 1999
This page features older entries from the Online Library's
"What's New?" section.
For the more recent entries, see What's
New in the Online Library of Selected Images;
For entries older than those seen here, see:
What's New in the Online Library of Selected
Images? -- Entries posted in July through October 1999;
What's New in the Online Library of Selected
Images? -- Entries posted in May & June 1999;
What's New in the Online Library of Selected
Images? -- Entries posted in March & April 1999;
What's New in the Online Library of Selected
Images? -- Entries posted in January & February 1999; and
What's New in the Online Library of Selected
Images? -- Entries posted in October - December 1998
- The Online Library ends its second year with a variety of
new subjects, representing the Civil War, Navy Nurses and mid-20th
Century ships.
The most notable Civil War ship is the Confederate ironclad ram
Atlanta,
which was captured in 1863 and added to the U.S. Navy. Our presentation
provides views of her on both sides of the conflict.
Other ships include another "turncoat", the Confederate
steamer De Soto,
which became USS General
Lyon following her capture in 1862. Two more weekly "Tinclads"
complete the ships' list (it was another long week!): USS Naiad and USS Nymph,
both of which served in 1864-65.
The new Civil War people are Rear
Admiral Samuel Phillips Lee, USN, who commanded the North
Atlantic Blockading Squadron for most of the war and finished
the conflict as commander of the Mississippi Squadron, and First Class Pilot Richard
E. Birch, USN, who was commanding officer of the General
Lyon.
Three more Superintendents of the Navy Nurse Corps joined the
Online Library, including: Chief
Nurse Esther Voorhees Hasson, who became the first Superintendent
in 1908 and who also had World War I service with the U.S. Army;
Chief Nurse Lenah H.
Sutcliffe Higbee, Superintendent in 1911-22, who was the
first Woman to be awarded the Navy Cross; and Lieutenant
Commander Myn M. Hoffman, who was Superintendent in 1935-38.
Our "new" mid-20th Century ships are: USS Manchester
(CL-83), the only Cleveland class light cruiser to
see Korean War combat duty; and the Japanese "Type A"
midget submarine Ha-19,
which was captured on 8 December 1941 after trying to participate
in the Pearl Harbor attack. Ha-19 can be seen today at
the Admiral Nimitz museum in Fredericksburg, Texas.
31 December 1999
- The past week marked a return to the "Forgotten War",
as we posted coverage of Korean War Carrier
Air Strikes, September-November 1950 and Carrier
Planes in action with MiG-15s, November 1950.
The World War II Director of the Women's Reserve ("WAVES")
also was added to our People files. She is Captain
Mildred McAfee (Horton), USNR.
The week's "Tinclad" is a big one, the Mississippi
Squadron flagship USS Black
Hawk (1862-65), which also carried one of the Civil War's
most dramatic color schemes.
Finally, we posted several minor Confederate river steamers:
CSS Admiral,
John Simonds;
Kanawha Valley;
Mars;
Ohio Belle;
Prince and
Yazoo. All seven
ships share a common image, and a common fate. They were either
sunk or captured at Island Number Ten in April 1862.
20 December 1999
- This has been a rather slow week for new Online Library features,
but we did not fail in our weekly endeavors to expand the growing
population of "Tinclads", posting coverage of USS Marmora (1862-65).
Also added was a presentation on the World War II Superintendent
of the Navy Nurse Corps, Captain
Sue S. Dauser, USN. Captain Dauser's "page" is
the initial visible evidence of what will be a continuing effort
to build coverage on the role of women in the U.S. Navy.
12 December 1999
- During the past week the Online Library gained four more
Civil War ships. Most significant is the ironclad river gunboat
USS Carondelet
(1862-65), which played a very active role in the conquest of
the Western Confederacy. Also posted was our weekly "Tinclad"
(actually, two of them!), USS Key
West (1863-64) and USS Rattler
(1862-64), plus the Confederate river steamer Grampus.
There was also a lot of presently "invisible" Korean
War work, the results of which will come into general view during
the rest of December.
5 December 1999
- November's final full week saw further postings on Aircraft
Carrier Operations during the Korean War's United
Nations' Offensive of September-November 1950.
Several Civil War subjects also made an appearance, including
(of course) the week's "Tinclad", USS Fort
Hindman (1863-65). Getting into the spirit of such things,
we added a second "Tinclad", one of the largest of
the type, USS Ouachita
(1864-65), and an ironclad, USS Chillicothe
(1862-65). Two floating representatives of the Confederacy also
joined our listings, the ironclad CSS Arkansas
and the steamer Capitol.
Both had brief service careers in 1862, with that of the Arkansas
being especially noteworthy.
Complementing the Civil War ships are three new people: Commander
Isaac Newton Brown,
CSN, who commanded the Arkansas during most of her short
life; Rear Admiral Henry
A. Walke, USN, captain of one of Arkansas' opponents,
the ironclad gunboat Carondelet (which should make its
appearance next week); and Pilot Alfred
Marshall, USN, a river pilot who served in USS Ouachita.
His Civil War U.S. Navy Pilot's uniform insignia are the only
surviving ones known to us.
Our final addition for the week is the World War II transport
USS Zeilin (AP-9,
later APA-3).
29 November 1999
- During the past week we began posting pages covering Aircraft Carrier Operations
during the Korean War's United
Nations' Offensive of September-November 1950. Additional
pages on this subject will be posted in the near future.
Also posted was a presentation on the first Korean War Navy winner
of the Medal of Honor, Captain
Thomas J. Hudner, Jr.
The week's new ships include two Civil War river gunboats, the
ironclad USS Tuscumbia
(1863-65) and our latest "Tinclad", USS Linden
(1863-64).
Three later ships also were added: our first medium landing ship,
USS LSM-397; the
World War II escort carrier USS Barnes
(CVE-20) and the atttack transport USS Noble
(APA-218), which saw action in World War II and in the Korean
War.
22 November 1999
- The cover page for the Korean War United
Nations' Offensive of September-November 1950 is now open.
This provides a historical overview and special image selection,
with links to the previously-posted presentations on the Inchon
Invasion and the Wonsan Operation. Other links will be activated
in the near future to broader coverage of other aspects of the
second major phase of the Korean War.
People posted during the week include Vice
Admiral Charles B. Momsen (1896-1967), an important submarine
community technical and tactical innovator, and two enlisted
men who are featured in views posted for other purposes: A.L. Rosenkotter and Michael C. Horgan.
The week's "Tinclad", USS Argosy
(1863-65), leads off a group of seven freshly-posted Civil War
era U.S. Navy ships. The others, all of which were active on
the North Carolina Sounds in 1864, mainly feature images cross-referenced
from presentations done earlier. They are the "Double-Ender"
gunboats Otsego
(1864), Shamrock
(1864-68), and Tacony
(1864-68); the small gunboat Whitehead
(1861-65); and the little tugboats Bazely
(1864) and Belle
(1864-65).
One mid-20th Century U.S. Navy ship also joined the "Online
Library", the transport USS/USNS General
A.W. Greely (AP-141).
We opened a new major catgeory: Civilian
Ships. This topic's current contents are few, but its potential
is vast.
Finally, a "new" Korean War image worth a look is Photo # NH 66526, showing
a crashed helicopter on USS Los Angeles in 1961. Its Extended
Caption features Admiral Arleigh A. Burke's light-hearted description
of the incident, in which he was a featured player.
15 November 1999
- Though there has been considerable "behind the scenes"
effort on Korean War images during the past week, everything
visible concerns U.S. Navy Civil War ships, including:
this week's "Tinclad", USS General
Sherman (1864-65);
the "Double-Ender" gunboat USS Wyalusing
(1864-67);
the former blockade runner USS Hornet
(1865-69), originally named Lady Sterling;
and two gunboats converted from ferryboats, USS Commodore
Hull (1862-65) and USS Southfield
(1861-64).
Presentations on these ships feature a variety of new and previously-posted
images.
8 November 1999
- Our presentation on The
Wonsan Operation of October 1950 is now complete.
We have also added two new ships, both of which served during
the Civil War.
One of them is our weekly "Tinclad", USS Fawn
(1863-65).
The other is USS Unadilla
(1861-69), the first of twenty-three "90-day Gunboats"
built early in the Civil War to provide shallow-draft heavy firepower
for employment in the coastal waters of the Confederacy.
1 November 1999
This page features November-December 1999 entries from the
Online Library's "What's New?" section.
For the more recent entries, see What's
New in the Online Library of Selected Images;
For entries older than those seen here, see:
What's New in the Online Library of Selected
Images? -- Entries posted in July through October 1999;
What's New in the Online Library of Selected
Images? -- Entries posted in May & June 1999;
What's New in the Online Library of Selected
Images? -- Entries posted in March & April 1999;
What's New in the Online Library of Selected
Images? -- Entries posted in January & February 1999; and
What's New in the Online Library of Selected
Images? -- Entries posted in October - December 1998
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Page completed 10 January 2000
Coding updated 8 April 2001