• Vol. 4, No. 3, March 2008

    Next month I will have the pleasure of speaking at the 36th Annual Maritime History Symposium in Bath, Maine. The theme is "Life in the Shipyard and Life at Sea." My presentation, Rolling the Beam Ends Under: Life on a Subchaser in WWI is tentatively scheduled for Sunday morning, April 13. (The schedule hasn't been circulated yet, so I don't know what time.) As most people following this newsletter know well, the subchaser sailors endured considerable challenges and risks in serving on the 110' chasers. I'll be showing photos of life on a chaser, from the frigid waters of New London in the winter of 1917-1918 to the heat of the Canal Zone and Mediterranean Sea.

    Speaking of the Canal Zone, this month a new photo set is posted showing chasers built at Bremerton traversing the Canal. Also posted are more photos from the Henry Miller collection, and several new hull number photos.

    --Todd Woofenden, editor

  • The Crew of SC 245

    Crew of SC 245

    March 2008 Posted this month is a photograph of the crew of submarine chaser SC 245.

    This is one of the chasers assigned to the USS Patterson Special Hunting Group.

    Thanks to Bruce Tatge, son of crewman Edmund R. Tatge, for submitting the photo.

  • William B. May: Panama Canal Collection

    March 2008 William B. May served as commanding officer of submarine chaser SC 292. T

    his chaser and 24 others were built at Bremerton, Washington, and traversed the Panama Canal. After the war, some of the chasers built in Washington state made a return journey. William May's daughter, Penny Thompson, recently submitted an excellent set of photos from the service of SC 292.

    This month is posted a set showing SC 292 and other chasers in the canal.

  • New Hull Number Photos

    March 2008 Posted this month are several new photos in the Hull Number Photos collection:

  • More from the Henry Miller Collection

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    March 2008 This month several more photos are added to the Henry B. Miller Collections:


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