Welcome to the sixth year of the Subchaser Archives notes -- and Happy New Year!
Each year when I start a new volume, I think about whether there will be enough time and enough material to continue; and so far each year there's not a lot of extra time, but always a supply of material to work with. Sometimes, in fact, I lose track of images or stories people have sent in, so by all means, remind me!
Best wishes for 2010.
Stephenson Photo Set: SC 282
Just posted is an excellent set of photos from the service of submarine chaser SC 282, which saw duty in the Canal Zone.
This set includes a superior photo of the wheelhouse, showing the engine telegraph, the wheel, voice tubes, etc.
Kids on Chaser, Tacoma
Recently posted is a photo of a couple of young girls posing on a submarine chaser in Tacoma, Washington.
Anyone know who Katharine and Sarah Elizabeth are?
Newspaper Story on SC 209
The Indiana Gazette recently posted a story about Richard Hassinger, and the ill-fated submarine chaser SC 209, mistaken for a submarine and shelled by the freighter Felix Taussig.
The article is posted on the Indiana Gazette's web site. (And attached as a pdf, in case you can't get to that page.)
See also the photo set and information about SC 209 here.