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Perishable skills, or the Navy is actually running Atlantic Convoy Ex again
The best tactic to beat the vile threat of U-boats in the Great War was the convoy, be it coastal, trans-oceanic, or whatever. July 1917: A photograph taken from the ersatz gunboat USS Rambler (SP-211)...
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After a two year effort by Secretary of the Navy Josephus Daniels and his assistant, a young New Yorker named Franklin D. Roosevelt, the Navy Reserves were officially established 3 March 1915, as the...
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Warship Wednesday, March 4, 2020: The Saipan Jug Carrier
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 14th Tallest ‘Building’ in the Yellowhammer State
Here we see have what the locals’ term “Big Grey AL,” the battleship USS Alabama (BB-60), just outside of downtown Mobile near the Austal shipyard at the park she has called home since 1964. Note her...
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“Greyhound” is finally here
I’ve known about this for a couple years, and been on the periphery of it as it was filmed, in part, on local museum ships such as the USS Kidd and USS Orleck in Louisiana. Further, some of my friends...
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A forgotten Great War tale
With today being International Women’s Day, there is no better time to point out a forgotten story in the U.S. Navy’s Great War experience, one that would echo across future conflicts. While the role...
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Welcome aboard, Woody
Named for MoH recipient Cpl. Hershel W. “Woody” Williams, the U.S. Navy commissioned its newest expeditionary sea base– USS Hershel ‘Woody’ Williams (ESB 4) in Norfolk, Virginia over the weekend....
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LCS to get Laser Zapper
Artist’s rendering of Lockheed Martin’s HELIOS system. The company picked up a $150 million contract to develop it for the Navy in 2018 to include a high-energy laser system for use against drones and...
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Happy Pi-Day
In my own naval-heavy military history salute to Pi-Day (3/14), we take a look at the peculiar exhibition that was U.S. Navy pie eating contests. Apparently, these were a regular occurrence at “steel...
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Stickleback found, filed 10,944 feet down
Just serving two days on her first (and only) WWII combat patrol before the cease-fire was issued in August 1945, the Balao-class submarine USS Stickleback (SS-415) served as a training ship until her...
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Abbreviated Warship Wednesday: Mount 43, 60 Years Ago Today
(Shorter WW today due to events-Eg.) 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...
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Ford marks 1K trap, cat
Looks like the Ford is actually getting the kinks worked out of its new-fangled electromagnetic cats and upgraded arresting gear. From the NAVY: ATLANTIC OCEAN (NNS) — An F/A-18E Super Hornet, attached...
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Warship Wednesday, March 25, 2020: Lady Lex off Panama
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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Surface warfare work never really changes
USS DeKalb, officer firing a 1-pounder (37mm) Hotchkiss gun while a Sailor observes, 18 May 1918. U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command Photograph. Catalog #: NH 41702 Fast forward 102 years:...
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The Guardian of the Mouth of the Mississippi
Here we see the mighty 55-foot powerboat-turned-patrol craft, USS Wendy (SP-448), underway during the Great War, likely around the Mississippi Sound to Venice, Louisiana area. The original print is in...
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Warship Wednesday, April 1, 2020: From Red Rover to Comfort
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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Coming in hot
ATLANTIC OCEAN (March 29, 2020) A P-8A Poseidon aircraft assigned to the “Skinny Dragons” of Patrol Squadron (VP) 4 flies alongside the Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Porter (DDG 78)...
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Hand Salute, CPT Crozier
The (Acting) SECNAV Thomas B. Modly has booted the skipper of the USS Theodore Roosevelt, Captain Brett E. Crozier (USNA 1994), from his post over the leaked letter the carrier’s commander penned in...
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Mighty D Rejoins the Fleet, after a 97-year hiatus
To comply with the limits imposed under the Five-Power Washington Naval Treaty, the low-mileage 22,000-ton early 12-inch-gunned dreadnought USS Delaware (Battleship No. 28), was decommissioned 10...
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Navy getting back into the LST business…?
When it came to amphibious warfare across a 60-year-run from 1942, when USS LST-1 was completed, through 2002 when USS Frederick (LST-1184) was decommissioned, the beachable tank landing ship was a key...
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