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Website Updates and Off-Topic Discussion / PigBoats.COM photo feature is now live, Enjoy!

« on: December 09, 2012, 02:05:38 PM »

PigBoats.COM photo feature has been launched.
The main page will display a close up image of a person or object with a link to visit the full sized photo.
We are doing this to help call attention to people or details that otherwise might be missed or overlooked.

Enjoy: http://www.pigboats.com/subs/legends.html

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Website Updates and Off-Topic Discussion / New segment of PigBoats.COM (tm) to start Sunday

« on: December 07, 2012, 10:57:19 AM »

We are bringing a new feature to PigBoats.COMTM, that being a "Photo Feature" of a person or something interesting happening in a photo that may be missed by just casual looking. These will be a cropped detail from a larger photo. We will provide a hot link to where that photo can be found and seen in its entirety. This feature will update every Sunday beginning December 9th, 2012.

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Ric
http://pigboats.com/subs/legends.html
USS Flasher SSN 613 Plankowner
USS Cusk SS 348 TAD Rider

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Website Updates and Off-Topic Discussion / Updates to Through The Looking Glass change

« on: July 27, 2011, 10:29:30 PM »

I have decided to no longer post notices to the Looking Glass page.
I do have an RSS Feed button and Link on my page that you can use to subscribe to the page to see any up-dates.
By subscribing to the page it is strictly a one way deal, I do not see or know who you are.

How to do it:
Here is a screen capture of my home page.
Notice right above the words "Last Update ~ July 27, 2011" is a button that says RSS Feed.
Click on that on the real page not this one;




After clicking on that a page will pop up that has this at the top.



Click on Subscribe and a box will pop up that looks like this;



It is as simple as that.

All you need to see if there has been an update to the page is click on the PigBoats.COM button and you will see a list that looks something like this;




GOOD LUCK and I hope you use this to keep up on what is happening to Through The Looking Glass.

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Website Updates and Off-Topic Discussion / Looking Glass Page Update

« on: July 25, 2011, 08:43:55 PM »

Have a fairly clean photo showing Sealion at Cavite after she was bombed. National Archives photo and best I've seen of this for a number of years.

http://www.pigboats.com/subs/legends.html

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Website Updates and Off-Topic Discussion / The mad updater strikes again USS L-11 post WW I

« on: July 24, 2011, 03:50:13 PM »

Got a really nice post WW I photo of the USS L-11 moored to a civilian dock someplace. No way to identify the location.

http://www.pigboats.com/subs/legends.html

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Website Updates and Off-Topic Discussion / Looking Glass Page Update

« on: July 22, 2011, 02:21:43 PM »

Added 10 photos from a scrapbook I acquired of the R-7 in dry dock getting painted and a few interior shots and a crew grouping around a caught Mahi-mahi.

http://pigboats.com/subs/legends.html

I hope folks are taking the opportunity to subscribe to my RSS feed so you won't need to check this BBS to see if there is an update posted.

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Website Updates and Off-Topic Discussion / AND,.. once more with an update.... Simon Lake boat...

« on: July 21, 2011, 11:20:18 AM »

....Protector, it was eventually sold to Russia.
A really good inside image with some details from it.

http://pigboats.com/subs/legends.html

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Website Updates and Off-Topic Discussion / Another update I hope you're not tired of these.

« on: July 20, 2011, 12:06:24 PM »

Two photos of the USS Dolphin (V-7) of the movie "Submarine D-1" fame.
She is doing her trial runs off Provencetown , Mass about the time of her commissioning.

http://www.pigboats.com/subs/legends.html

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Website Updates and Off-Topic Discussion / New USS Sculpin Photo

« on: July 18, 2011, 10:55:59 PM »

Updated The Looking Glass page with a nice photo of the USS Sculpin standing by at the Squalus salvage operations.

http://www.pigboats.com/subs/legends.html

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Website Updates and Off-Topic Discussion / Located some USS F-3 sea trial photos.

« on: July 17, 2011, 12:14:17 AM »

...have some nice photos from the Jefferson County Historical Society of the USS F-3 doing sea trials on Port Townsend Bay, June 15, 1912.

http://www.pigboats.com/subs/legends.html

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Website Updates and Off-Topic Discussion / Placed 14 photos of the USS S-43 on the Looking Glass Page

« on: July 11, 2011, 06:11:10 PM »

Went through a scrapbook I bought a while back and put 14 photo of the USS S-43 up for viewing.
More to post of other boats coming in a little while.

http://pigboats.com/subs/legends.html

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Website Updates and Off-Topic Discussion / A few USS G-1 photos

« on: July 07, 2011, 02:56:05 PM »

Updated the G-Boat page with 4 new or better images of the G-1 hauled out at the Brooklyn Navy Yard. No date but late teens is probably a good shot.

http://www.pigboats.com/subs/legends.html

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Website Updates and Off-Topic Discussion / 56 Image Update...

« on: July 05, 2011, 03:35:15 AM »

I updated the USS Holland page with 56 new of better photos of the 1st sub with practical systems for running surface and submerged.

http://www.pigboats.com/subs/legends.html

Enjoy.

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Website Updates and Off-Topic Discussion / Nice Squalus Salvage photo added

« on: June 30, 2011, 01:01:50 PM »

Updated the Looking Glass with a nice little snap-shot I picked up on eBay.
pic was taken of her at Pier 6 for pumping out.

http://www.pigboats.com/subs/legends.html

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Website Updates and Off-Topic Discussion / New Argonaut photo added

« on: June 25, 2011, 11:12:06 AM »

Came across an Argonaut photo I neglected to add during the big update a few weeks ago.
Based on the paint job on the hull it seems to have been taken around the time of her trail runs at Provencetown, Ma circa 1928.

http://pigboats.com/subs/legends.html