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My Yachting Adventures
Below is a list of links to the main pages about my yacht, Catlypso and My Yachting Adventures:
  • Purchase of Catlypso
  • Details about Catlypso
  • Cleaning/Repairing Catlypso
  • My Yachting Adventures.
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    Michael's 4WD Trips
    Click here for a list of my Four Wheel Drive and Camping Trips.
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    SS President Coolidge - References
    Michael McFadyen's Scuba Diving - SS President Coolidge References SS President Coolidge References:
  • The Good Ships of Newport News by Alexander Crosby Brown - page 197
  • Newport News Shipbuilding - The First Century
  • Ships Built by Newport News Shipbuilding - page 8
  • Histories of Newport News Ships
  • Always Good Ships by William A. Fox - page 35
  • Newport News Shipbuilding - The First Century - pages 132, 146, 179
  • Lloyds Register various years
  • The New Dollar Liners approx 1931
  • Last Minutes of the President Coolidge by Frank Cameron, MAST magazine, May 1946, pages 18-20
  • Records of Proceedings, Nelson Document 72990 - Judge Advocate General, File A17-10 also Document 71972
  • The Lady and the President - The Life and Loss of the S.S. President Coolidge by Peter Stone
  • American President Lines Web Site
  • Shipbuilding and Shipping Record - August 13, 1931 - page 213
  • Shipbuilding and Shipping Record - December 17, 1931 - pages 784 to 789
  • Shipbuilding and Shipping Record - December 24, 1931 - pages 806 to 811
  • First hand account of the sinking by Richard Schneider who was on the ship when it sank.
  • First hand account of the sinking by Max Evans who was on the ship when it sank.
  • First hand account of the sinking by Joe Ignatz who was on the ship when it sank.
  • First hand account of the sinking by Roy H. Dobbins, Ship's Carpenter - sent to me by his daughter Julie Dobbins
  • Copies of original papers from the Commission given to me by Kevin Green of Aquamarine Diving, Santo
  • Troopships of World War II by Roland W. Charles, Wash, DC: Army Trans Assoc, 1947. p. 136.
  • Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships Vol 2 - 1963, pages 96-97
  • Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships Vol 6 - 1963, pages 246-248
  • USS Salem Web Site on US Fighting Ships
  • USS Salem Web Site on US Fighting Ships
  • Historical and Pictorial Review, 43d Infantry Division, Camp Shelby, Mississippi, 1942. Baton Rouge: Army & Navy Pub, 1941. 111 p.
  • Macarthur a film by WGBH Foundation, broadcast 27 May 1999 by Australian Broadcasting Corporation (Channel 2) as part of The Big Picture
  • The Struggle for Guadalcanal - Vol 5 of History of United States Naval Operations in World War II. by Samuel E. Morison, Boston: Little, Brown, 1950. pp. 181-82.
  • U.S. Army. 43d Inf Div. Winged Victory: The Story of the 43rd Infantry Division Baton Rouge: Army & Navy Pub, 1946. pp. 13-14.
  • U.S. Navy Dept. Office of Info. Navy Department Communiques 1-300 and Pertinent Press Releases. Wash, DC: GPO, 1943. p. 145. 2 Dec 1942 press release.
  • The History of the 43d Infantry Division, 1941-1945 by Joseph E. Zimmer, Baton Rouge: Army & Navy Pub, 1945. pp. 14-15.
  • Discussions with Allan Power, November 1991
  • Personal conversations with Barry May, Scuba Expo, Sydney, 1995
  • Web Site about Brisbane in WWII - 8th Photo Recon
  • US Merchant Marine Web Site
  • E-mails and photographs from Richard P. Toulson, Los Altos, California
  • E-mails from Walter J. Wall Jr, who was in the 103rd Field Artillery
  • E-mails from Burt Jacquith, current owner of the SS President Coolidge wreck.
  • Oral History: Lt Ruth Erickson, NC, USN at Naval Historical Center Web Site
  • E-mails dated 3 June 2001 from Larkin Hosmer, son of Craig Hosmer, commander of the ship's Naval gun crews
  • Armed Guard Unit Log Book - S.S. President Coolidge by C. Craig Hosmer, Lt (jg), D.V(G), USNR, Commanding Officer, Armed Guard Unit
  • Email dated 5 February 2002 from Robert Dodd of Eagan, Minnesota (his father travelled on Coolidge in March/April 1942)
  • Email dated 10 February 2002 from John Ritz of Hopkinton, Massachusetts whose father Joseph Ritz modifed 155 mm guns in Noumea for transport on Coolidge
  • Letter dated 6 April 2002 from Rosalie Smith of Cedar City, Utah, who travelled on Coolidge 27 November to 25 December 1941
  • The United States Army in World War II - The War in the Pacific - Guadalcanal: The First Offensive by John Miller, Jr, page 212
  • USS St LouisWeb Site
  • Web Site about Brisbane in WWII - 4th Air Defence Group
  • Willamette University Football Team
  • Web Site about Frank Bergman
  • Web Site about Gareth Jones
  • Peter Dunn's Australia at War Web Site
  • Peter Dunn's Australia at War Web Site
  • To China and Back by Bill Wilson
  • Letters and notes from Josephine W. and Royal H. Fisher provided by Henry D. Fisher, Willow Street, PA, USA
  • E-mail and personal discussions dated 2002 with Stephen Parisi, survivor of the sinking
  • E-mail from Sue Stephenson whose father Charles J. Stephenson was on the Coolidge when she sank
  • E-mail from Michael A. Jones, Sr from Hot Springs, Arkansas, dated 19 September 2002
  • E-mail from Dan Scott dated 13 February 2003
  • Steamboat Bill, Issue 242, Summer 2002 - the journal of the Steamship Historical Society of America
  • Certificate presented to Private First Class Wilbur O. Root, 20149675, 172nd Infantry and Combat Team
  • E-mail from Stanford S. Silverman, member of 37th Infantry Division, dated 2 May 2005
  • E-mail from Laura Barlow, daughter of John Barlow, crew member (still alive March 2006 aged 84)
  • Web site about Richard Halliburton
  • Telephone conversation with Des Woodley, 10 March 2014
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