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Chapel on the Thames
USN Submarine Base, New London (Groton) Connecticut
Interior looking toward entrance
Looking toward the main entrance
Exterior - Chapel on the Thames
Exterior view - the Chapel faces the lower base 
Notation about the brochure and the memorials from Chaplain Edwards:
    "The brochure opens with a short history of the building of Chapel on the Thames and continues with how Charles Connick was chosen as the windows builder and with descriptions of each one.

    If you have visited the Chapel, you have seen how each pew has a brass plate memorializing the pew to a specific boat from World War II which 'went on patrol and did not return.' 

    When I was Base Chaplain, we started memorializing a boat each Sunday in rotation. I bought a wreath which is hung on the pew of the boat memorialized on a given Sunday. There is a also a memorial book in a case near the Ambo which lists the names of all 3,131 enlisted and 374 officers lost in World War II submarines and is open to the page of the boat memorialized that week.

    We start the cycle on July 1st, and it takes a whole year to work through it."

Credits:
Images included in the USSVI MEMORIALS Chapel on the Thames section are by PH1(AW) Edward I. Fagg. 

Assistance in finding the right Submarine Base contact persons and also providing the CD of images was from Command Master Chief Mike Hurley.

Brochure text was typed into format for placing in webpages by Linda K. Harrison.,
Webmaster notes: WORK IN PROGRESS

July 2001...Selected additional images will be added later.

Yes, I know, I still have NOT added all the images. Working on it.

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