From your web-site I now know of three more KAWISHIWI cruise books I was not previously aware of.  These are the 1959-60, 1969-70, and 1976-77 cruise books.  I was previously aware of the 1961, 1962-63, 1963-64, 1966, 1967, 1970-71, and 1972 cruise books.  Of all of these cruise books, I have only documented the 1962-63 and 1963-64 KAWISHIWI cruise books which I have copies of in my collection.

On the one cruise book titled "Humpin and Pumpin", on your web-site, I think there is a date in the upper right corner but can't make it out.  Could you tell me what date that cruise book represents?

Are you willing to do some wheeling and dealing?  I have the 1962-63 and 1963-64 cruise books that I am willing to lend you so you can post them on your web-site.  Would you be willing to lend me any other KAWISHIWI cruise books so that I can document them for my project?  It takes me less than 10 
minutes to document a non-CV cruise book so I could turn them around back to you within a day or two (depending on my schedule; I'm still on active duty and travel a lot).  If you have shipmates in San Diego that would give me 10 minutes of time that would work as well.  If you are interested, I can send you exactly what I have on KAWISHIWI cruise books in the format I'm using.

If you check out the Coasties cruise book section at Fred's Place on the web, you'll see 2 of 4 cruise books I let them borrow to post, the CASTLE ROCK and POLAR SEA.  He is in the process of scanning two others I've sent him, MORGENTHAU and BEAR, I believe.

Do you happen to have a complete list of KAWISHIWI C.O.'s (dates of command, rank, full name)?  I'm collecting that info also and still debating whether or not to include it in my final work.  I want to but don't know if I could ever live long enough to compile that data for all the ships I know that have published cruise books.

I've queried every library, museum, used book store data base on the net and many personal collections.  I've documented 120+ cruise books held by the Submarine Base in Pearl Harbor, over 80 from the Mariner's Museum in Newport News, and 300+ from the San Diego Diego Maritime Museum in San Diego.  I'm getting there, slowly but surely.   Since I've only been doing this for less than four years, I'm happy with the progress I've made so far.  Starting in MAY02,  I hope to have the first volume done if 3-4 years.  I need to find about 340 cruise books I'm lacking in the period 1885 to 1953-54.  The other four 
volumes would follow 3-4 years after the previous one.  This, at the rate I'm going.  If I can make some trips out to the East Coast this schedule would be greatly accelerated as I go through some of the collections out there. I'm trying to visit ship reunions held in San Diego to document those ship's cruise books, USS SMALLEY (DD-565) will be the first.

Please let me know if you are interested.  All the Best!!!