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Admiral Arleigh Burke’s Deep Dive Diploma
U.S.S. Robert E. Lee (SSBN 601) Pax Deterrendo Deep Dive Diploma Be it known among all ye landlubbers and topside sailors that on 15 Nov 60 I was visited in the depths of my domain by the U.S.S....
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Freedom on the ropes with bad diesel
150428-N-TC437-320 PACIFIC OCEAN (April 28, 2015) The littoral combat ship USS Freedom (LCS 1) transits alongside the aircraft carrier USS John C. Stennis (CVN 74) in preparation for a...
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Navy’s 4th Fleet Cyclones keep clocking in on Martillo
MAYPORT, Fla. (Aug. 02, 2016) – The Cyclone-class Patrol Coastal USS Shamal (PC 13) returns to homeport U.S. Naval Station Mayport after a 62 day deployment to the 4th Fleet area of responsibility...
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Warship Wednesday Aug. 31, 2016: The Nebraska stiletto
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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Say it’s not so, Coronado
160629-N-IY142-050 PEARL HARBOR (June 29, 2016) USS Coronado (LCS 4) arrives at Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam for Rim of the Pacific 2016. Twenty-six nations, more than 40 ships and submarines, more...
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Anaconda Plan, 1945 Installment
With the anniversary of VJ Day this week, I was brainstorming something. The jury will always be out on just what won the U.S. Civil War: the defeat of Lee in the North, Grant’s splitting of the...
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So long, Indy
Pretty soon, relics such as these will be all that is be left of Indy… The ex-USS Independence (CV-62), last of the Forrestal-class of aircraft carriers that plied the seas from the 1950s to the 1990s,...
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The cost of keeping Yorktown in business
The Post and Courier has an excellent article on what it costs to keep a large maritime museum with floating relics in operation. Built around USS Yorktown (CV/CVA/CVS-10), one of 24 Essex-class fleet...
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Hello Blue/Gold LCS, goodbye multi-use
The littoral combat ship USS Independence (LCS 2) demonstrates its maneuvering capabilities in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of San Diego. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class...
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Warship Wednesday Sept. 14, 2016: An everlasting Citrus with very long roots
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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Bluejackets at play in the last part of the 19th Century
Here is a great series of postal cards from the Detroit Publishing Co in the 1870s-1890s showing various scenes around the fleet. Several of these were taken on the grand old ship of the line USS...
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Earhart’s Last Flight
I’ve always been interested in mysteries of the sea– unexplained ship and aircraft vanishings, etc– and one that has captured the imagination of many over the decades is the enduring riddle that is...
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Scratch another LCS
In what is fast becoming a regular news item, a Littoral Combat Ship–in this case the freshly commissioned Independence-class USS Montgomery (LCS-8) suffered engineering casualties during a transit...
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275,000-tons of rock and roll
(U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Christian Senyk/Released) Really nice representation of a modern combined 11-ship Carrier Strike Group and Expeditionary Strike Group, both...
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Warship Wednesday Sept. 28, 2016: From the Lingayen to the FloraBama
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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Aries may soon ride again
Back in the 1970s Adm. Elmo Zumwalt came up with the idea that flotillas of small, fast attack craft could help control the coastal littoral in time of war. Used in places like the Baltic and...
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So what if we have been doing it this way for 241 years…
Just when you thought Ray Mabus couldn’t get any more lame: Secretary of the Navy (SECNAV) Ray Mabus, Chief of Naval Operations (CNO) Adm. John Richardson and Master Chief Petty Officer of the Navy...
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Why you don’t poke around a littoral in an aluminum ship with no armament.
Video surfaced that purports to be a Houthi missile attack on the former MSC’s HSV-2 Swift near the Red Sea port city of Mocha near the Bab Al Mandab Strait early Saturday. The 1,700-ron/321-foot Swift...
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Guess how many 16-inch shells are left in storage?
Crewmen load a 16-inch shell aboard the battleship USS WISCONSIN (BB 64) as the vessel is readied for sea trials (Photo: National Archives) The answer to that would be 15,595 live ones in 10 different...
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The reports of Swift’s death have been greatly exaggerated
Over the weekend news and video surfaced that the former HSV Swift, which had been leased to MSC for 10 years from 2003-2013 and is currently owned by Emirates-based UAE Marine Dredging Company but was...
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