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Hoosier Houseboat
80 years ago this week, a fantastic series of photos of the late South Dakota-class battleship USS Indiana (BB 58) conducting a high-speed turn in Puget Sound, November 30, 1944. BuShips photos via...
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Efforts to Save an FFG Sunk
6 January 2013. Period caption: “Guided-missile frigate USS Halyburton (FFG 40) transits the Gulf of Aden. Halyburton is deployed with Commander, Task Group 508, promoting maritime security operations...
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Murderers’ Row
80 years ago today, 2 December 1944, in an ode to the ’27 Yankees. Third Fleet fast carriers anchored in Ulithi Atoll, Carolines, in a brief lull before the start of the Mindoro landings in the...
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Kangaroo in the Pouch
How about this great shot some 80 years ago this week showing the stern of the destroyer USS Claxton (DD-571), at left, a bow-on view of the heavy cruiser USS Canberra (CA-70), center, and another tin...
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The Brown Water Navy’s 81mm Mortar Mark 2
In a recent Warship Wednesday (Coast Guard Ron Three) we touched on the use of the 81mm mortar in two fixed emplacements behind the main 5-inch gun mount on a series of USCG cutters that deployed to...
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Navy Husky on Ice
Official caption: Field technicians with the Arctic Submarine Laboratory prepare to remove ice from the Los Angeles-class attack submarine USS Hampton (SSN-767) at Ice Camp Whale on the Beaufort Sea,...
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Storis to Return, Zumwalt Floats, Arkansas Launches
U.S. Coast Guard icebreaker Storis during the run for a short-cut Northwest Passage prepares to send helicopters aloft on ice reconnaissance before proceeding eastward through Amundsen Gulf to Dolphin...
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Warship Wednesday Dec. 11, 2024: Cathedral Slugger
Here at LSOZI, we take off every Wednesday for a look at the old steam/diesel navies of the 1833-1954 period and will profile a different ship each week. These ships have a life, a tale all their own,...
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Unaymit!
80 years ago this month. December 1944. “Unaymit” (White 15), a behemoth Martin PBM-3D Mariner flying boat of the “White Lightnings” of Patrol Bombing Squadron (VPB) 17 refueling on a flat sea around...
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Ward’s Pearl Harbor Gun May Get New Home
USS WARD NH-50261 Mare Island 1918 At 0637 on 7 December 1941, the Wickes-class flush-decker, USS Ward (Destroyer No. 139), was detailed to Pearl Harbor’s Inshore Patrol Command and was on picket duty...
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