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Archive of Older "What's New in the Online Library of
Selected Images?" --
Entries posted in March & April 2000
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 January & February 2000;
What's New in the Online Library of Selected
Images? -- Entries posted in November & December 1999;
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
- This "week" has been cut rather short by the sudden
necessity of the staff (all one of him) making an unscheduled
trip. However, there is some progress to report:
Our coverage of World
War I era Yeomen (F) has taken a further large step toward
completion, with the posting of presentations on Yeomen
(F) -- Artworks and Cartoons and Yeomen
(F) -- Uniforms. Only a little more remains to be done to
complete this subject.
Four new ships were added to the "Online Library",
including the World War II small aircraft carrier USS Independence
(CVL-22), the large cruiser USS Alaska
(CB-1),the Civil War ironclad river gunboat USS Louisville
and the Confederate ironclad Nashville.
Pressure of time has prevented the addition of another Secretary
of the Navy, but we promise to make it up to you later.
27 April 2000
- Extensive coverage of World
War I era Yeomen (F) has just been posted. When completed
in the next week or so, this presentation will include virtually
all the images we hold on the Yeomen (F), the first women to
be part of the Navy's personnel ranking system and a very important
part of the First World War Naval administrative effort.
Among the ships posted during the week is the battleship USS
North Carolina (BB-55),
whose appearance marks the end of our efforts to provide "selected
images" coverage on World War II's new "battlewagons".
Presentations were opened on the Civil War ironclad USS Pittsburg and the small
Confederate gunboat Nansemond,
as well as on the Japanese World War II "Kairyu"
type Midget Submarines. Several individual Japanese submarines
were also posted, all using images prepared for the "Kairyu"
presentation. These include: Ha-101,
Ha-102,
Ha-104,
I-369 and
Ro-58.
The week's new people include Mahlon
Dickerson, Secretary of the Navy under Presidents Jackson
and Van Buren in 1834-38, and Lieutenant Betty
W. Mayer, who was an Assistant Superintendent of the Navy
Nurse Corps in 1923-30.
23 April 2000
- Our initial presentation on Nurses
and the U.S. Navy is now complete up to the World War II
years, which is as far as it will be taken this year. Newly posted
coverage includes World War I and the Inter-Wars era: Nurses
and the U.S. Navy -- 1917-1919 and Nurses
and the U.S. Navy -- 1919-1941.
We have also posted a page on Scope
and Limitations of the Online Library. This may help our
patrons understand what the Online Library is, and is not.
As always, new ships were posted during the past week. The aircraft
carrier USS Wasp (CV-7)
and large cruiser USS Guam
(CB-2) are our latest "big" ships. Civil War representatives
include another Federal ironclad river gunboat, USS Baron
de Kalb (originally named Saint Louis, and the
never-completed Confederate ironclad ram Muscogee
(also known as CSS Jackson.
In recognition of the newly-released fictional film "U-571",
we have posted what few photographs we have on the "real"
U-571,
a Type VIIc submarine that was active in the Battle of the Atlantic
during 1941-44. That ship's presentation, incidently, inaugurates
our coverage of German
Naval Ships. The same pictures used for U-571 are
also featured in a presentation on one of her victims, the Motor
Tanker Pennsylvania
Sun, which survived her encounter with German torpedoes
to spend another twenty-plus productive years in the merchant
service.
The week's only new person is Levi
Woodbury, the ninth Secretary of the Navy, who served from
1831 until 1834 under President Andrew Jackson
16 April 2000
- The Online Library has just added some "Old
Salts" to its repertoire. These, and their new messmates
"The Old Navy"
and "Spinning a Yarn"
provide opportunities for visual communing with the "Wooden
Ships and Iron Men" Navy.
We also gained the usual new ships and people: Among the ships,
the battleship USS Washington
(BB-56) has now made its appearance, as has the Civil War
river ironclad gunboat USS Cairo,
which was sunk in December 1862, salvaged (rather destructively)
in 1965 and later partially reconstructed. Her remains are now
on exhibit at Vicksburg, Mississippi.
Another new Civil War representative is the Confederate Navy
cruiser CSS Chickamauga,
which made a brief, but destructive cruise off the U.S. East
Coast in 1864-65.
Also joining the ranks was another Japanese warship, the battleship
Kirishima.
Off Guadalcanal on 14-15 November 1942, she was so badly battered
by USS Washington's guns that she had to be scuttled.
Kirishima's hulk, some 4000 feet below the ocean surface,
was located and explored in August 1992.
Among the new people are the eighth Secretary of the Navy, John Branch, who served
in Preident Andrew Jackson's Cabinet in 1829-31. Our other new
person is Rear Admiral Willis
A. Lee, Jr., who directed USS Washington's successful
fight with the Kirishima.
9 April 2000
- The Online Library gained one important new ship during the
last week, plus a number of people and other items.
The aircraft carrier USS Enterprise
(CV-6) had a two-page "selected views" presentation
added, giving useful pictorial coverage to a ship whose role
in winning World War II in the Pacific cannot be overstated.
Coverage was also added for another class of Japanese World War
II midget submarines, the Type
D (or "Koryu"), of which hundreds of units were
either built or building for "last ditch" (or "last
coastline") defense when the War ended.
New people include the seventh Secretary of the Navy, Samuel
Southard, who was in office in 1823-29, and two well-known
figures of the 1830s and 1840s, Quartermasters Frederick
Boyer and Dick Libby.
Both are the subjects of the earliest known portraits of Navy
enlisted men.
3 April 2000
- There was quite an influx of Civil War ships during the last
week, plus additional coverage on Navy Nurses, more Twentieth
Century "big" ships and more people.
Largest warships added were the battleship USS South
Dakota (BB-57) and the never-completed large cruiser
Hawaii (CB-3). New
Civil War ship coverage includes a page on United States' Western
Rivers rams, among
them several ships of the Army's "Ellet ram fleet".
These are Lancaster,
Lioness,
Mingo,
Monarch,
Queen of
the West, Samson,
and Switzerland.
Also added were the ill-fated ironclad USS Indianola
and the Confederate ships City
of Vicksburg and Queen
of the West.
New people include the sixth Secretary of the Navy, Smith
Thompson, who held the office in 1819-23, and his wife Sarah Livingston Thompson.
Coverage was also added on two of the leading figures of the
"Ellet ram fleet", Brigadier General Alfred
Washington Ellet and Colonel Charles
Rivers Ellet.
The week's final new page covers Nurses
and the U.S. Navy, 1908 to 1917.
27 March 2000
- The past seven days saw the posting of more ships, plus another
Secretary of the Navy, Benjamin
W. Crowninshield, who held the office immediately after the
War of 1812, and a Roman Catholic Nun, Mother Angela
Gillespie, who led the Sisters of the Holy Cross in nursing
services afloat and ashore during the Civil War.
The most significant new ship is USS Ranger
(CV-4), the U.S. Navy's first "built for the purpose"
aircraft carrier.
Two more Civil War ships have made their appearance: USS Vindicator, a steam
ram that served on the Mississippi during 1864-65; and the Confederate
ram Webb
(1862-65), which made a dramatic run down the Mississippi just
before the end of the conflict.
20 March 2000
- This week's "News" includes the opening of a new
Online Library topic: Nurses
and the U.S. Navy. Though it only covers the era up to the
eve of World War II, and remains incomplete even within that
epoch, the "Nurses" category represents our initial
coverage of Women and the Navy and Medicine and the Navy, both
subjects that are sure to grow over the next months and years.
In addition, we have begun presentations of "Albums and
Scrapbooks", providing items from of our collections in
different formats than those posted previously. The first album
was kept by one of the Navy's first nurses during the early years
of the Nurse Corps: the J. Beatrice
Bowman Photo Album, circa 1908-1915. We have designed this
presentation to make it possible for viewers to "leaf"
(in a "virtual" sort of way) through the album page-by-page,
as well as examine its contents by subject.
More ships and people were also posted. The new people are William Jones, who was
Secretary of the Navy in 1813-14 and Navy Nurses Mary
Ella Moffett (who served from 1912 to 1934) and Madeline
Clara Lassuy (in the Service in 1937-40).
New ships include another battleship, USS Indiana
(BB-58) and several Civil War ships of both sides that served
on the Mississippi River and its tributaries. Federals are the
tugs Dahlia, Daisy and Fern.
Confederates (all sharing several images) are the River Defense
Fleet rams General
Beauregard, General
Earl Van Dorn, General
M. Jeff Thompson, General
Sumter and Little
Rebel.
13 March 2000
- A few more ships and people were posted last week.
The new people are Admiral
Edward W. Eberle, who served as Chief of Naval Operations
in 1923-27, and Landsman
Thomas E. Corcoran, who received the Medal of Honor for heroism
during the Civil War.
Leading the new ships is USS Saratoga
(CV-3), the Navy's third aircraft carrier, which had an eventful
career before, during and after World War II. The Civil War is
represented by the river ironclad USS Cincinnati
and one of her opponents, the Confederate ram Colonel
Lovell.
5 March 2000
This page features March & April 2000 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 January & February 2000;
What's New in the Online Library of Selected
Images? -- Entries posted in November & December 1999;
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 7 May 2000
Coding updated 8 April 2001