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Warship Wednesday, Jan. 30, 2019: The ‘$2 million Fighting Monster’
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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Over a seaman’s grave, no flowers grow: USS Thresher to be remembered at...
USS Thresher. Starboard bow view, July 24, 1961. (Official U.S. Navy Photograph) More than a half-century after their loss, 129 brave submariners will be given a standing memorial at Arlington. USS...
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You get a carrier, you get a carrier…
The Navy just awarded some $15.2B to Newport News for work on the two Gerald R. Ford-class aircraft carriers, the 9th USS Enterprise (CVN-80) PCU, and the as-yet-to-be-named CVN-81. The ships are...
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SoDak back after 72 years and 2 days
South Dakota became a state on November 2, 1889, simultaneously with North Dakota, and the first U.S. Navy warship named in honor of the state was Armored Cruiser No. 9, a Pennsylvania-class ACR of...
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China on track to have six (6) carrier battle groups by 2035
The People’s Liberation Army Navy (PLAN) of China is hard at work on their second Type 001A class aircraft carrier, CV18. It will use an electromagnetic aircraft launch system and displace somewhere on...
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F-18Cs put to pasture by the Navy, kinda
The Blue Blasters of Strike Fighter Squadron (VFA) 34 hosted a sundown service for the Charlie series F/A-18 last week. The Blasters were the last tactical squadron in the Navy flying the bird, most...
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The cold and quiet of the South Pacific at 17,500 feet
USS Hornet (CV-8) at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii Territory, probably in June or July 1942. Note the pattern of her Measure 12 (Modified) camouflage Best known for her role in the Doolittle Raid just weeks...
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Happy Valentines Day!
If you don’t have a card yet, there is still hope. Here are a couple of printable Valentines’ cards, courtesy of U.S. Naval Explosive Ordnance Disposal Group Two. Boom! Not to be outdone, the Navy PAO...
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Keep off Gov boats!
The sad fate of the majority of the U.S. Navy’s Great War splinter fleet. Here we see a trio of disarmed 110-foot subchasers to include USS SC-216 and USS SC-225 in Boston harbor’s Dorchester Bay boat...
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Warship Wednesday, Feb. 20, 2019: Nimitz’s first Ranger, or, the wandering...
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Young battlewagons at play
Here we see, on the cusp of the Great War, a most excellent color-tinted postcard published by the Valentine Souvenir Co., New York from a photograph by Enrique Muller, showing brand-new early...
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Hanging up the Snake
KIEL, Germany (June 15, 2018) Logistics Specialist 2nd Class Gerardo Preciado raises the First Navy Jack aboard the Blue Ridge-class command and control ship USS Mount Whitney (LCC 20) while arriving...
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Submarines at play in Oz
Recently four of Australia’s six home-grown Collins-class diesel-electric submarines were spotted frolicing in the West Australian Exercise Area northwest of Rottnest Island near Cockburn Sound. The...
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Remembering the Tampa
Signal boost here, from the USCG: R 261000 FEB 19 FM COMDT COGARD WASHINGTON DC//CG-092// TO ALCOAST UNCLAS //N05700// ALCOAST 062/19 COMDTNOTE 5700 SUBJ: USS TAMPA PURPLE HEART MEDAL CAMPAIGN 1. The...
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That time the Navy needed binos so bad it asked for loaners
To say that the U.S. entered the Great War in 1917 unprepared was an understatement. With a standing Army that was smaller than almost any European combatant with the possible exception of Portugal...
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Navy gives LCS’s minesniffer a thumb’s up (finally)
The Navy last week announced the completion of developmental testing for Raytheon’s AN/AQS-20C mine-hunting sonar system at Naval Surface Warfare Center, Panama City Division. This thing: For these...
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The briefly loved Grand Rapids, on the block
The U.S. Navy has always had a weird love-hate relationship with gunboats. Over the past two centuries, they crank them out for use in littoral operations that do not warrant a destroyer or cruiser,...
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Warship Wednesday, Mar. 6, 2019: The good doctor’s fine ‘Frida
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Vale, RADM Ed Keats, (USNA 1935)
Edgar Salo Keats was born in Chicago in 1915. Let that sink in. When he was minted, Eugene Ely had just four years before took off in a Curtiss pusher from a temporary platform erected over the bow of...
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Vraciu remembered
On 19 June 1944, during the “Great Marianas Turkey Shoot,” VF-16 Hellcat flyer Lt. Alexander Vraciu splashed not one or two or three but six (6) Japanese Yokosuka D4Y Judys in eight minutes, firing...
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