DANFS
January 2nd, 2009 From
>From: Brooks Rowlett
>Subject: DANFS
>To: mahan@microworks.net
>Date: Mon, 3 Nov 1997 10:59:20 -0500 (EST)
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>David L. Riley wrote:
>
> > This is extracted from the “Dictionary of American Naval Fighting
> > Ships,” a staple for anyone maintaining a World War II naval webpage. In
> > 18 months of maintaining the Naval Historical Center’s page, fully 3/4
> > of the 4,000 e-mail queries were related to histories of vessels, and
> > mainly WWII vintage. The nine-volume “Dictionary” is being digitized by
>
>Currently there are over 1000 ship histories from DANFS online at
>http://www.uss-salem.org/danfs/ . This is an all-volunteer effort to
>digitize sections of DANFS, begun years ago, back when NHC said “we’re not
>interested” in digitizing DANFS. Currently we have all the
>battleshipsinterested” in digitizing DANFS. Currently we have all the
>battleships
>and fleet carriers (CV/CVL), 95% of the CVEs, half the destroyers, and a
>wide sampling of other ships online.
>
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