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Bonhomme Richard, found
“BONHOMME RICHARD” Ex ‘DUC DE DURAS’ 1779 By artist E. Tufnell NH 72802-KN Built in 1765 for the French East India Company as an armed merchantman the 152-foot Duc de Duras was placed at the disposal...
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Warship Wednesday, Dec. 19, 2018: Nimitz’s pogy boat
Here at LSOZI, we are going to take off every Wednesday for a look at the old steam/diesel navies of the 1833-1946 time period and will profile a different ship each week. These ships have a life, a...
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The mighty, if hard to see, last hurrah of the Silver State monitor, 101...
Here we see the Arkansas-class monitor USS Tonopah, Monitor #8, in her submarine tender role, sporting a complex geometric “dazzle” camouflage at Boston Navy Yard, 21 December 1917. This image was...
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Happy Holidays and Merry Christmas Eve
Snow falls on the flight deck of the aircraft carrier USS John C. Stennis (CVN 74) on Christmas Eve in Bremerton Wash., Dec. 24, 2017. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Cole...
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Bad day for museum ships
A few of the last of their kind, which had been planned to be turned into floating museum ships, will now have another fate. In Jacksonville, a group has been trying for years to obtain the USS Charles...
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2019 Coming in hot!
Happy New Year to one and all, hope yours gets off to a bang. Battleship USS New Jersey BB-62 firing a six-gun salvo at an enemy troop concentration near Kaesong, Korea, 1 January 1953. And also a...
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Warship Wednesday, Jan. 2, 2019: Splinter No. 330 (of 448)
Here at LSOZI, we are going to take off every Wednesday for a look at the old steam/diesel navies of the 1833-1946 time period and will profile a different ship each week. These ships have a life, a...
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Black Ponies at 50
Vietnam War-era patch for the Black Ponies of Light Attack Squadron (VAL) 4 via NAAM On 3 January 1969, the Navy established Light Attack Squadron (VAL) 4, the famed “Black Ponies.” Prior to its...
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Rhyme of the McCampbell’s Mariner
The traditional New Year’s Day poem in the ship’s deck log at the stroke of midnight goes back generations in both the U.S. Navy and Coast Guard dating back to at least the 1920s. Ens. Lauren Larar...
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Harold Brown, the MIRV-maker
Brown helped make the SSBN the go-to element of the nuclear triad and went on to become the 8th Secretary of the Air Force and 14th Secretary of Defense. One of the most interesting SECDEFs to ever...
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Navy continues to experiment with expeditionary packages
A few years ago the Navy put together a Special Purpose Marine Air-Ground Task Force (SPMAGTF) built around just 250 Marines with a quartet of four CH-53E Super Stallion helicopters. Deployed to...
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50 years ago today: The worst morning on the Big E
At 8:19 a.m. on 14 January, a MK32 Zuni rocket loaded on an F-4J Phantom overheated due to the exhaust from a nearby starting vehicle aboard the USS Enterprise (CVAN-65), setting off a chain of events...
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Sold 99 years ago today: One pogy boat, slightly used (license not included)
Here we see the 96-foot long section patrol craft USS Vester (SP-686), photographed circa 1917-1919 during The Great War, probably in a Delaware Bay-area port. According to DANFS, “the ship appears to...
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Warship Wednesday, Jan. 16, 2019: The first of the Big W’s
Here at LSOZI, we are going to take off every Wednesday for a look at the old steam/diesel navies of the 1833-1946 time period and will profile a different ship each week. These ships have a life, a...
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The colors inside the sardine can
When we see photos of submarine interiors from the WWII-era, there is a general monochrome aspect to them due to the B&W nature and washed out “copy of a copy” life span of such imagery. Submarine...
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Cook, arriving
Always something captivating about a night transit of a place like this while “haze gray and underway.” Just keep your eyes out. Official caption: “The Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS...
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Insignia pop-quiz
Super common in Gulfport and Port Hueneme, as well as anywhere the FMF is moving into new digs overseas, but less frequently encountered elsewhere, this insignia may stump some: Give up? It’s the...
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Monsoor joins the fleet (if only she could shoot)
On the 75th anniversary of the January 1944 launch of USS Missouri (BB 63), the USN commissioned the second (of 3) Zumwalt-class guided missile destroyers on Saturday. Named for Master-at-Arms 2nd...
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Old warships die, but their pieces live on
With the recent decision by the Navy to dispose of the ex-USS Charles F. Adams (DDG-2) rather than donate it for preservation, the calls went out for other military museum ships to come get what they...
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Vale, CPT Mariner
Rosemary Mariner in the 1990s when she was commanding officer of red-star-insignia’d ‘Flashbacks” of VAQ-34, the last Skywarrior and EA-7L electronic aggressor squadron in the Navy. Texas-born...
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