Allied Warships
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The What's New Archive
July 2012
2012
31 July
11:20 - U-boat Commander photos added
Have just added 94 photos of U-boat Commanders; 60 from Crew 37b and 34 officers from Crew 34. All the photos came from Kriegsmarine Crew books and mostly feature photos from their training years. Now we have photos of 700 U-boat Commanders.
20:58 - Commander page written
Wrote a career bio on the 26-year old Kptlt. Klaus Hänert, the Commander of U-550 just discovered of the US coast this week.
23:11 - U-boat found of USA
The wreck of U-550 has been found off the US coast. See our announcement on this discovery or visit the U-550 page directly. Thanks to everyone who sent this in (I was away for the day and just saw this while, fittingly, at sea).
20:13 - Map updatesNew maps:
U-boats losses in May 1943, U-boat losses by year and U-boats at sea on 4 May 1945Totally rewritten maps:
U-boats bombed in safe waters, U-boats missing in action and U-boats sunk by Allied submarines
20:17 - Maps of U-boat losses
Just added a map on each U-boat page showing its position of loss - if applicable. See U-157 for example.
11:47 - Allied Warships section improvements
We added 8,656 new warships to our Allied Warships section. We now have 21,092 ships listed there. Most of these new warships were of various small motor boat types.
In addition to the items shown here above we made some 3822 additions or changes in our databases during July 2012.