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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 / Re: AND,.. once more with an update.... Simon Lake boat...

« on: July 22, 2011, 02:23:25 PM »

It's the attire of the guys on the bench that gets me. I just can't imagine working a sub dressed like that, even if it were the "fashion of the day" so to speak.

It just goes to show that courage and bravery are independent of attire.

These are with out much doubt employees of the Lake Torpedo Boat company and probably doing a demo run for a few big shots of some kind.

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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 / Re: What browser are you using? (IMPORTANT POLL)

« on: July 21, 2011, 11:18:54 AM »

Last Sunday, (7/17), I upgraded to FireFox 6 Beta. It is much faster and all my AddOns came over with the upgrade. Very stable. In fact I'd call it rock solid!

I'm very pleased with it.

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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.