ON THE COVER:
Dramatic photograph of a gunner on a PT-Boat during 1942. The PT-Boats played a vital role in the fighting in and around Manila Bay following the Japanese invasion. (USN)

FEATURES:

FIRST THROUGH
How the collier USS Jupiter became the first US Navy ship to transit the Panama Canal / by Thomas Crowley

MIDGET FOR THE NAVY
Not only was the SS X-1 the US Navy’s only midget submarine, it was also the only ship built by an aircraft company / by Ray Fitzgerald

MEMPHIS VS. THE TIDAL WAVE
How an armored cruiser could not take the punishment offered by Mother Nature / by Sam Cox

THEY WOULD NOT SURRENDER
John Morrill and some of the men from the USS Quail would escape from the hell of Manila Bay and sail a whaleboat all the way to
Australia / by Roy Bernard

LOSS OF AN AMERICAN ICON
It appears that the decades-long battle to save the USS United States has come to a very sad conclusion / by Thomas Maxwell

DEPARTMENTS

MUSEUM NEWS
Trying to find the WWII history of an ammunition hauler

INTEL FILE
New DNA tests have identified a crewman from the ill-fated HMS Terror and HMS Erebus expedition and the fact that he was eaten by survivors

LOST AT SEA
Expanded department features more ships whose sailing days are over / by Susan Duprey

YOUR NAVY
Latest images from the Navy’s top photojournalists / by Howard Carter

SEA MAIL
News and views from the readers of Sea Classics