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What's new in the TAGS Ship Web Site |
January 3, 2021 |
Two photos added to the Bowditch and Dutton ship's portraits
pages. |
January 1, 2021 |
Reworked the
naval ship covers page, fixing the goofed up image
magification. Added five more covers (envelopes) postmarked
aboard TAGS ships. Added note about Michelson covers being
postmarked at a landlocked Pennsylvania Navy supply center. |
December 19, 2020 |
Added to Flotsam & Jetsam, some screen grabs from the 1958 movie
The Decks Ran Red, filmed aboard an operating Liberty
ship. |
December 15, 2020 |
Three more
naval ship covers added. These are interesting postal souvenirs documenting
the TAGS
ships' movements worldwide. |
December 11, 2020 |
More updates to the
crew roster and more
headshots added. |
November 29, 2020 |
More pictures added to Bill Truslow's
photo gallery and
memorabilia page. |
November 15, 2020 |
Added another
photo of
Bowditch and a new item to Ron Walker's
memorabilia page. |
November 8, 2020 |
Bowditch, Dutton and H. H. Hess ship's movement pages updated. Thanks to
Bill Truslow. |
October 26, 2020 |
Crew roster updated. |
October 24, 2020 | An excellent photo of Captain Bondeson in dress uniform aboard Michelson and some news clippings in a new photo gallery. Thanks to Constance Niclas. |
October 19, 2020 | New items added to Bill Truslow's memorabilia page and Bill and Ron Walker's photo gallery pages. |
October 7, 2020 | Reworked and expanded the Systems and Equipment section. |
October 2, 2020 | Fixed broken links in List of Contributors. |
September 29, 2020 | Added a newly discovered photo of SS Tuskegee Victory at Antwerp and two 1964 photos of Michelson at Port Canaveral in Ship's Portraits. |
September 20, 2020 | Crew roster updated. There are now more than 1500 shipmates listed. |
September 7, 2020 | Bowditch, Dutton, Michelson and H. H. Hess ship portrait pages reformatted. |
September 6, 2020 | Flotsam & Jetsam, a new section of miscellaneous maritime material added. Includes an intriguing piece called Who Really Discovered the Titanic by Dr. Paul Lee. |
August 30, 2020 | Bowditch, Dutton, Michelson and H. H. Hess ship's movement pages reformatted and updated. |
August 28, 2020 | NAVOCEANO Bulletins added to reformatted Newpaper Articles pages. |
August 24, 2020 | H. H. Hess ship's newspaper page added. BoWatch from October 1981, February 1982 and July 1982 furnished by Bill Truslow. |
August 14, 2020 | Bowditch Spitoon from February 1982, March, April, May and August 1983 and December 1984 were added to the ship's newspapers. Thanks to Bill Truslow for sending them. |
August 12, 2020 | Crew roster updated. There are now more than 1400 shipmates listed. |
August 8, 2020 | A new article about the Victory Ship Electrical System. |
July 29, 2020 | Some nice comments in the guest log about Captain Bondeson, master of USNS Michelson and and USNS Bowditch during the 1960s from persons who knew him. A biographical article about the captain can be found here. |
July 26, 2020 |
A new article about the
Victory Ship steering system. |
July 24, 2020 |
Crew roster updated. |
July 23, 2020 |
Links to information on the Bendix G-15 computer added
to the
Equipment and Systems page. Thanks to Phil Brooks for the
links. |
July 16, 2020 |
Added an extended version of
Michelson at Sea video by Phil
Brooks. |
July 9, 2020 |
A new article about
Victory Ship propulsion. |
July 5, 2020 |
Memorabilia page for
USNS H. H. Hess added as well as
new photos in the ship portrait page. |
July 2, 2020 |
The communications equipment installed in NIC c. early
1970s is
identified here. |
May 30, 2020 |
A page of
Naval Ship Covers added. Not a sailor's white hat, a naval
cover is an envelope or post card postmarked and mailed aboard
ship. These sometime have a cachet, a printed or rubber
stamped image. |
May 28, 2020 | Bowditch cruise books from October 1972 and June 1976 were added. Thanks to Bob Lord for sending them. |