Archive for April, 2011

Sorting Through Contributions

Taking a break from my grandfather CDP’s letters and such, I’ve been going through the photos and stories you have been sending me to contribute. I am very thankful for them! The last few posts are bits of that. I also have a post-war story from Vernon to review and post.

After posting the muster roll, out of curiosity, I Googled each of the names to contact a few genealogy hits and let them know about this site. Maybe it will lead to some other photos or war trinkets. I am also holding out hope that I run into someone who is still alive…but that window of opportunity is quickly vanishing.

Stay tuned!

YMS-135 Subclass Microfiche Blueprints

I somewhat crudely pieced together the partial scans of the ship’s blueprint. Here it is in totality, though the scans given to me where warped in places, so the measurements are likely not quite perfect. These came from copies of what appear to be microfiche film.

I plan to try and get my hands on better copies of these plans from the National Archives in the near future. Click through for as high of resolution as I have thus far.

YMS-135 Subclass; Blueprint

YMS-135 Subclass; Blueprint