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Petrel does it again
Wasp dresses with flags for Navy Day while she anchors in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, 27 October 1940. Note the old flush-deck destroyer in the distance. (U.S. Navy Photograph NH 43463) Built with 15,000...
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Prowlin’ no more
Before they merged with Northrop in 1994, the old-school Grumman Corporation fielded some of the most iconic military– and specifically carrier– aircraft ever made in the 20th Century. We are talking...
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George is a big boy…
The Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS George H.W. Bush (CVN 77), after a decade with the fleet, arrived at Norfolk Naval Shipyard (NNSY), Feb. 21, for a 28-month dry-docking planned incremental...
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Warships in Nebraska
It’s odd to find a submarine or a minesweeper out on the Great Plains but such an example exists at Omaha, Nebraska’s Freedom Park which has long had custody over the old WWII-era (3 Battle Stars)...
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A link to Kearsarge, up at auction
We’ve talked extensively in passed Warship Wednesdays and other posts about the epic contest off France between the British-built steam privateer CSS Alabama, under the swashbuckling Capt. Raphael...
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Banana Boat Tin Cans
No, not these: These: The banana boat SS Matagalpa, ex-USS Osborne (DD-295), docked in New York near the Brooklyn Bridge (U.S. Naval Institute Photo Archive) “Shortly after the cessation of hostilities...
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Keeping the lamp lit
While the U.S. Navy’s naming convention has shifted wildly over the years– for instance in the 1840s frigates were named for states but by the 1890s those names were used for armored cruisers,...
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Warship Wednesday, Mar. 27, 2019: Tehran’s Tangs
Here at LSOZI, we are going to take off every Wednesday for a look at the old steam/diesel navies of the 1833-1946 (ish) time period and will profile a different ship each week. These ships have a...
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The quiet after the Storm, 28 years ago today
PH2 Susan Marie Carl. (OPA-NARA-2015/11/15) “The American flag flies from a vessel in the foreground as the nuclear-powered guided missile cruiser USS South Carolina (CGN-37) returns to port from...
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Take a break to celebrate the Brown Water Navy today
Nothing says “get some” like a twin M2 Remember, today is National Vietnam War Veterans Day: With that being said, dig this far out training film covering the “Small Boat Navy” as it was called in the...
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Salty Mineman says to the Master Chief…
And the kicker: everyone warned him beforehand… Gold stripes are overrated, anyway. Oh, wait…
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April Fools, Pearl Harbor edition, 74 years on
NHC # 80-G-K-4707 Here we see crewmen on watch on a 40mm quad Bofors gun mount while their ship was supporting the invasion of Okinawa, 1 April 1945, some 74 years ago today. Their vessel: the...
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Nice to see a Gator laying some steel down
With small fast attack craft easier than ever to produce in swarms on the cheap in both manned and unmanned versions, it is nice to see the Gator Navy at least practicing on these as targets. PACIFIC...
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The Terror of Castillo San Felipe
Osprey’s June offerings, to include US Navy Battleships 1886–98: The pre-dreadnoughts and monitors that fought the Spanish-American War by Paul Wright, looks on point when it comes to maritime art....
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Loching around and cherry picking
The sometimes beautiful tale of two hard-serving forward-deployed DDGs this week, waving the flag in far off ports.: FASLANE, Scotland (March 31, 2019) The Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer...
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Aardvark, arriving
While, if you squint, this beautiful variable geometry warplane seems to be an early Grumman F-14 Tomcat landing aboard a carrier, tail hook down. That’s where you are as wrong as can be. The truth is,...
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Warship Wednesday, April 10, 2018: All Forms of Manly Sports
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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Low clearance, tight squeeze
The largest Royal Navy warship ever to take to the sea, the fleet carrier HMS Queen Elizabeth (R08), has been in the water for six years. This means a drydocking period to check her hull and strip away...
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Boom!
Cape Wrath, Scotland (April 10, 2019) The Flight IIA Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Gravely (DDG 107) fires her beautiful red-white-and-blue embellished 5″/62cal Mk45 Mod 4 gun during...
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Street Gang, 53 years on
A throwback to 13 April 1966: An early MkI type U.S. Navy Patrol Boat, River (PBR) near Cat Lo, Vietnam. (K31134, CU). First fielded in 1966 (the above craft was brand new) some 250 PBRs served in...
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