With all of this nice weather, I've spent less time at the machine and more time outdoors, so this month the bulletin is short. As always, there is more that I haven't gotten to... A happy Fourth of July to all!
Todd Woofenden, Editor
New in The Chasers >> Hull Number Photographs
Recently posted is a nice photograph of SC 279 and SC 283, which served in the Canal Zone. There are still a few chasers that served in the Canal Zone that are not shown in the Hull Number Photographs section, including SC 280, SC 281, SC 282 and SC 287. If anyone has a photograph of any of those, please send it in.
New audio content at In the Great War
The latest audio addition to the In the Great War series is a set of personal letters from the collection of subchaser radio electrician Henry Tegler, describing his experience entering the U.S. Navy and training as a radio man. Before I read these letters, the detailed sketches of the radio equipment circuits (several of which are scanned and posted in the section on Tegler's Journal) were a bit of a mystery. The working assumption was that these drawings were part of his training. The letters bear this out.
New in Tactics & Equipment >> Devices
Recently I had an interesting email exchange with an individual working on a display project for the Iziko Museums in Cape Town, South Africa on the sinking of SS Mendi. He had asked about the Carley float (life rafts) in WWI, and I sent him a couple of photographs, small versions of which are posted on a new page on life rafts.