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Navy gets Intrepid Corsair back after 71 years
Director of Naval History and Heritage Command (NHHC) Sam Cox (right), Kate Morrand (middle), Senior Conservator & Laboratory Manager of NHHC’s Underwater Archaeology Branch, and Yoshiro Kishida...
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Warship Wednesday April 6, 2016: The evolutionary link of Casablanca
Here at LSOZI, we are going to take off every Wednesday for a look at the old steam/diesel navies of the 1859-1946 time period and will profile a different ship each week. These ships have a life, a...
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And her name shall be Sea Hunter
Just unveiled a few weeks ago, the 132-foot USV which aims to be the Navy’s newest 21st Century expendable sub-chaser has been formally christened. Part of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency...
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Just going to visit Poland and run into Uncle Ivan
The Arleigh Burke-class destroyer USS Donald Cook (DDG-75) is forward deployed to Rota, Spain to help provide a ABM shield over Europe and allow NATO members to sleep well at night. Well, as part of...
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Memoratus in aeternum, Thresher
Starboard bow view, July 24, 1961. (Official U.S. Navy Photograph) USS Thresher (SSN-593), commissioned in August 1961, was the lead ship of a new class of nuclear-powered, fast-attack submarines and...
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Warship Wednesday April 20, 2016: The Slugger of the Nevada Test Site
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Now that’s something you don’t see everyday
The future USS Zumwalt DDG 1000 returned from the at-sea portion of INSURV acceptance trials last Thursday after two days underway at sea. She is breathtaking. U.S Navy photo And, at 600-feet oal and...
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Warship Wednesday April 27, 2016: The flattop who saw Dragoon and Dracula,...
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Bring in the BAT!
Throwback Thursday! On this day in 1945 a U.S. Navy PBY4Y-2 Privateer patrol bomber of VPB-109 employed “Bat” missiles against Japanese shipping off Balikpapan, Borneo in the effective first combat use...
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Last Naval Aviator with an air-to-air kill leaves the service
On Jan. 17, 1991, LCDR Mark I. Fox was flying an F/A-18 Hornet with Strike Fighter Squadron 81 (VFA-81, “Sunliners”) off USS Saratoga (CV-60). On that day, Fox shot down an Iraqi MiG-21. Fox and his...
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Moving boldly into Daisy territory
When I was a pup back at Pascagoula High School in the early 1990s I was in NJROTC. We had an rack after rack of dewatted M1903 drill rifles, a couple of .38 Model 10s, and a locker full of Mossberg...
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The very sinkable Thomas Oliver Selfridge
Nice spyglass, Captain There stands in U.S. Naval History an officer who drew the black bean not once, or twice, but well…let us just get into it. Born 6 February 1836 in old Charlestown, Massachusetts...
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Warship Wednesday May 4 2016: The original Wahunsenacawh
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That sneaky Blue Ridge
As reported by the South China Morning Post, the Chinese government allows port calls by foreign military ships on a “case by case basis in accordance with sovereignty principles and specific...
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Time stops for no old tin cans, or, farewell Barry
ALEXANDRIA, VA- MAY 7: The former USS Barry, once a Navy destroyer, is towed down the Potomac River on its way to a ship graveyard at the former Navy base in Philadelphia. (Amanda Voisard/For the...
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Yes, Virginia, the Navy has foresters
Naval Support Activity Crane is best known as the place the USN does most of their munitions research, storage and manufacturing and is the U.S. navy’s third-largest physical base in size. While the...
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Warship Wednesday May 11, 2016: The Slothy Siberian Heavyweight
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An Aegis cruiser, without the hull
On Sept. 17, 2009, President Obama announced that the United States would provide missile defenses to NATO, to include the deployment of SM-3 interceptor missiles at landbased sites in Romania and...
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Pearl Harbor relic found in Baltimore basement
The 14,000-ton Naval Auxiliary Service collier Vestal was christened in 1908 and later was redisignated a repair ship in the Navy proper becoming USS Vestal (AR-4). Vestal deployed “Over There” in...
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Warship Wednesday May 18, 2016: Spanish gunboats a-go-go
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