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Warship Wednesday, Sept 13, 2017: The Queen of the Little White Fleet
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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Know anybody with some Oerlikon parts gathering dust?
They basically need everything you see above in gray… I recently talked to Clark Perks, development director at the Battleship New Jersey Museum and Memorial and he has an 888-foot battlewagon full of...
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Those who haven’t been to sea have never really seen the sky
The amphibious dock landing ship USS Ashland (LSD 48) patrols waters off the coast of Australia under a star-lit night during Talisman Saber 17. U.S. Navy photo by Petty Officer 3rd Class Jonathan Clay...
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Feeling froggy? Like 1944 froggy?
IMA has a great grouping from a frogman of Underwater Demolition Team 7 during WWII.They include a set of Owen Churchill of LA swim fins, a Waterproof Bag BG 160 by U.S. Rubber Company, a wetsuit with...
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Crank em out
Here we see a beautiful example of perhaps the best .45-70 chambered Gatling design, the Colt-produced Model 1890. This wonder, fitted with 10 31-inch octagon barrels, could let those big...
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The fleet at work
PACIFIC OCEAN (Aug. 21, 2017) Sailors observe a refueling-at-sea with the guided-missile destroyer USS Sampson (DDG 102) from the hangar bay of the aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN 71)....
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Happy first day of fall
And in thoughts of things colder, here is the Flight IIA Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Oscar Austin (DDG 79) digging the Northern Lights as she transits the Arctic Circle Sept. 5,...
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100 Years ago today, Key West NAS
On this day in 1917 Lt. Stanley Parker made the first Naval flight recorded at Key West. It was in a Curtiss N-9 seaplane, like the one pictured here in Key West, circa 1917-18 (the planes in the back...
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Navy completes Vietnam War book series
USS Saint Paul bombarding communist positions off Vietnam, Oct 1966 With the publication last week of End of the Saga: The Maritime Evacuation of South Vietnam and Cambodia, the Naval History and...
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Adams and Jax
The former USS Charles F. Adams (DDG-2) was ordered in 1957 and was a very important stepping stone in modern Naval history due to her being designed to complete as a guided missile destroyer, carrying...
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Warship Wednesday, Sept. 27, 2017: One Able Sims
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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Farewell, Ponce, laserslinger of the Gulf
Nicknamed “Proud Lion,” Ponce was reclassified from an amphibious transport dock ship to an interim afloat forward staging base with a hybrid crew of Navy and Military Sealift Command personnel. They...
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Sure, you’ve heard of a sergeant-major, but have you heard of a...
NH 100613 An officer and men of the South Carolina-class battleship USS MICHIGAN (BB-27) landing force prepare to disembark off Vera Cruz, Mexico 22 April 1914 for a rough shore call. The men wear...
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Warship Wednesday, Oct. 11, 2017: I’d like to be back on my horse
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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The Bluejacket in bronze
PEARL HARBOR, Hawaii (Oct. 10, 2017) The Lone Sailor Statue is pictured at the World War II Valor in the Pacific National Monument Visitor Center in Pearl Harbor. The statue will be officially unveiled...
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Farewell, Lion: headed to the great razor blade store in the sky (not Port...
171014-N-VC599-068 NORFOLK (Oct. 14, 2017) Lt. Michael Murmuys carries the last flag flown aboard afloat forward staging base (interim) USS Ponce (AFSB(I) 15) during the ship’s decommissioning...
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That’s a lot of haze gray muscle on red lead row
Philadelphia Naval Shipyard, October 1995, right as the site closed. As you can tell, it was a popular Inactive Ships location for some real WWII/Cold War heavyweights chilling in the City of Brotherly...
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Constitution, underway
BOSTON (Oct. 20, 2017) A U.S. Coast Guard Station Boston law enforcement team provides security for the USS Constitution, Friday, Oct. 20, 2017 as it sails in Boston Harbor to commemorate the Navy’s...
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95 years ago today: Good trap, Darb!
An Aeromarine 39B piloted by Chevalier is seen just before it touches down on the flight deck of USS Langley (CV-1) on 26 October 1922 – the first landing aboard an American aircraft carrier. Via...
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Modern salts on Uncle’s atomic roller coaster, 77 years ago OTD
“Modern Salts”, Spinning a Yarn in the casemate of 5″/51 Gun Number Eleven of USS Arkansas (BB 33) on 27 October 1940. The men are (from left to right): Gunner’s Mate Second Class N.I. Fewell;...
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