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Remember that time B-1Bs simulated dropping Quickstrike mines in a Baltic op?
The Russians are sure to be a fan of the ongoing BALTOPS excercise which has seen, among other things, the Truman Strike Group including Carrier Air Wing One (CVW) 1, embarked aboard the Nimitz-class...
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Bonnie Dick on the scene, 49 years ago today
In a special Warship Wednesday, here we see the (then) 25-year-old Essex-class aircraft carrier USS Bon Homme Richard (CVA-31) underway in the Gulf of Tonkin on 13 June 1969 during her fifth cruise to...
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‘Demolition Crew – The Marianas’ 74 years ago today
Painting, Oil on Board; by Robert Benney; 1944; Framed Dimensions 40H X 58W, Accession #: 88-159-AF as a Gift of Abbott Laboratories. Naval History and Heritage Command Official caption: Before D-Day...
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Coming correct in the Baltic
Exercise Baltic Operations (BALTOPS) 2018 recently concluded and was pretty wide in scope, blending both NATO forces and non-aligned Baltic nations (i.e. Sweden and Finland) with 43 maritime units,...
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Of polar bears and .45s
I don’t know a lot about USNRF LCDR Donald Baxter MacMillan’s Arctic Expedition of 1925 on the research schooner USS Bowdoin and Zenith founder Eugene F. McDonald’s donated steam yacht Peary, but it...
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Warship Wednesday, June 20, 2018: The last of the drummers
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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Boeing’s 51-foot yellow submarine is back to bobbing off the West Coast
Boeing’s Echo Voyager undersea drone undergoes its first round of testing, which was completed off the California coast last year. (Boeing Co.) Boeing’s Echo Voyager, a fully autonomous extra large...
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Firing back, 75 years ago today
Nothing could scream “The Battle of the Atlantic” quite like this image, now some three-quarters of a century old. While during a WWII-North Atlantic Convoy, USS Greer (DD-145)‘s gun crew on the after...
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One heck of a RIMPAC line
(U.S. Navy photo by Intelligence Specialist 1st Class Steven Robles/Released) “PACIFIC OCEAN (June 24, 2018) The Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Sterett (DDG 104), front, participates...
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Warship Wednesday, July 4, 2018: Remembering the Independence most often...
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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Rest in peace, Dewey’s parrot
The final resting place of the parrot mascot of the venerated protected cruiser USS Olympia, Commodore George Dewey’s flagship on that fateful day in 1898 at the Battle of Manila Bay, interned at age...
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Vintage greetings from the USS Rhode Island, Battleship No. 17
Via the Thomas Crane Public Library’s Fore River Shipyard Postcard Collection: Commissioned into the Atlantic Fleet in February 1906, Rhode Island was one of five Virginia-class pre-dreadnoughts built...
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Ever wondered what an LA Harpoon looks like?
Sailors load a Harpoon anti-ship cruise missile on to the Los Angeles-class fast-attack submarine USS Olympia (SSN-717) as part of the biannual RIMPAC maritime exercise. The 1970s era anti-ship missile...
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Scooter’s HIPEG, from the man who brought you the Spruce Goose!
Here we see what was then dubbed the Mark 11, 20mm Aircraft Gun, in the Mark 1 POD, attached to the centerline bomb rack of a Douglas A4D-2 Skyhawk aircraft, April 14, 1958. The system was known in...
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An interesting look inside UUVRON 1
Last fall the U.S. Navy established its first-ever unmanned undersea vehicle squadron, UUVRON 1, at NUWC Keyport, Washington. Unmanned Undersea Vehicle Squadron One’s mission is to develop the tactics,...
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SoDaks representing, 73 years ago today
Artwork by John Hamilton from his publication, “War at Sea.” Courtesy of the U.S. Navy Art Gallery: 89-20-Z: U.S. Navy battleships firing guns on the Japanese mainland, July 1945. “Believed to detail...
View ArticleIf you are a fan of the USS Racine, you probably shouldn’t watch this footage
Live fire from aircraft, a submarine, and land assets participating in the Rim of the Pacific (RIMPAC) exercise sank the long-decommissioned ex-USS Racine (LST-1191) on 12 July in the Pacific Ocean....
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Battlewagon on a lake, 103 years ago today
Here we see the Illinois-class pre-dreadnought type battleship USS Wisconsin (BB-9) drawing 23 feet of water in Gatun Lake, Panama, 16 July 1915. Obsolete within five years of her commissoning, she...
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Warship Wednesday, July 18, 2018: The hardest working cheesebox
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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PCE, is that you?
Here we see the beautiful Miguel Malvar-class “corvette” BRP Cebu (PS 28) of the Philippine Navy at a recent CORPAT PHILINDO exercise with Indonesian forces off Davo City, and later tied up at the same...
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