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The final Navy carrier deployment of the F-18 Charlie has concluded
A sight that will go unseen moving forward, barring Marine air units deploying with carrier groups: Photo US Navy From Scramble Magazine: On 11 April 2018, Strike Fighter Squadron (VFA) 34 Blue...
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Men of action in coffee-stained crackerjacks, 104 years ago today
These are not the kind of guys you want to pick a fight with. NHHC NH 100612 Ensign Schuyler F. Heim and other members of the landing party from the South Carolina-class battleship USS Michigan (BB-27)...
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Want almost three dozen military trainers on the cheap? Here you go
For the frugal warbird flyer in search of a fleet of fixer-uppers, there is a dealer selling 34 retired piston-engine trainers — in various conditions. Platinum Fighters is selling a few squadrons’...
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One very cold cruiser, 75 years ago today
Here we see the USS San Francisco (CA-38) silhouetted against a snowy mountain in Kulak Bay, Adak, Aleutian Islands, 25 April 1943. NHHC 80-G-72059 A New Orleans-class cruiser, “Frisco Maru” received...
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Pike’s Standard, now 205 years in custody
Here we see U.S. Naval Museum Catalog #1849.001.0014. It is the British Royal Standard taken from the Parliament House at York, now Toronto, the British capital of Upper Canada by 1,800 regulars under...
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Warship Wednesday, May 2, 2018: The 1,000-ton consular insurance policy
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 oddity that was the Flying Deck Cruiser
Between the end of WWI and the beginning of WWII, the U.S. Navy experimented with a number of, ultimately spurned, designs to create a hybrid aviation carrier or cruiser carrier– basically a cruiser...
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Warship Wednesday, May 16, 2018: Schermerhorn’s contribution to naval history
Here at LSOZI, we are going to take off every Wednesday for a look at the old steam/diesel navies of the 1859-1946 period and will profile a different ship each week. These ships have a life, a tale...
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A little bit of Nerwin will live forever
One of the most interesting submersibles ever to not take up a slot on the U.S. Navy List was Deep Submergence Vessel NR-1, a nuclear-powered testbed for Rickover built by Electric Boat in the 1960s....
View ArticleNew rebreather sips Helium compared to older systems
For all of you with a hard hat diving interest, the Navy’s new MK29 Mixed Gas Rebreather system, shown below, was recently developed at the Naval Surface Warfare Center Panama City Division. Designed...
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A special Warship Wednesday: Remembering Scorpion
Whereas normally this post would be some vintage ironclad, battleship or steam sloop, today we honor the men who lost their lives 50 years ago this week when USS Scorpion (SSN-589) a Skipjack-class...
View ArticleGreen Beret dive teams before they were actually Green Berets
This Big Picture film on Special Forces Amphibious Training in 1956 Okinawa is insightful. Of note is the fact that the “fighting frogman” detachment receives instruction in conducting water insertion...
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The carriers that aren’t
The below piece of shipbuilding history is a 1974 status report on the then-under construction Tarawa-class amphibious assault ship (LHA) class at Pascagoula’s Litton-Ingalls Shipbuilding. Capt. Jack...
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The Terrible T off the Sunshine State, 73 years ago today
USS Tautog (SS-199), photographed from an altitude of 300 feet off the Florida coast by airship ZP-31 on 29 May 1945. Note the scoreboard painted on her conning tower. Tautog (skippers: Willingham,...
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Of light cruisers and baby flattops
Here we see an aerial photo of the Pacific Reserve Fleet, San Francisco unit, in early 1958, some 60 years ago. Located at Hunter’s Point (San Francisco Naval Shipyard), the most recognizable vessel in...
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On the eve, 48 before Overlord
“LST in Channel Convoy June 4 1944” Drawing, Ink and Wash on Paper; by Mitchell Jamieson; 1944; Framed Dimensions 30H X 25W Accession #: 88-193-HK “A view on board an LST, looking forward from the...
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Slab’s Takur Ghar blaster
Found in the NHHC Curator Branch Collection: This rifle was carried by then-Senior Chief Britt “Slab” Slabinski while serving as Team Leader of Maco 30 during the Battle of Takur Ghar in support of...
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That’s one big porcupine, 74 years back
Aerial view of the super-dreadnought USS Iowa (BB-61) underway, 10 June 1944. At the time her armament consisted of 9x 16″/50 cal Mark 7 guns in three triple turrets, 20x 5″/38 Mark 12 guns in 10 dual...
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That’s a whole lotta diesel
This great view shows 11 vessels of Submarine Squadron Five (nine submarines including a missile-slinger, a submarine rescue vessel, and a submarine tender) moored side by side for a change of command...
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Packing non-carriers with stern-sitters, an enduring idea now new again
Below we see an “Artist Conception of the Short Takeoff and Vertical Landing (STOVL) fighter concept, developed by the David W. Taylor Naval Ship and Research and Development Center, in various stages...
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