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Warship Wednesday, Jan.13, 2021: Of Hurricat and Hoverfly
Here at LSOZI, we take off every Wednesday for a look at the old steam/diesel navies of the 1833-1954 time period and will profile a different ship each week. These ships have a life, a tale all their...
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Anti-Ship Missiles for more than just the surface combat Navy
EXOCET MOBILE COASTAL battery uses four vehicles: a TOC, sensor unit, and two four-missile firing units, to put 8 AShMs on shore. It requires just 16 men. A similar concept could be used for the Naval...
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38 Special Standing By: Mine No More
Below we see the watercolor entitled “Mine No More” by Chip Beck, showing, “An Iraqi mine is blown in place by U.S. Navy EOD divers from USS Missouri as USS Curtis [sic] hovers in the background in the...
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Main Battery, Away
Check out this series of great images from LIFE photographer Bill Ray in 1964, chronicling Douglas A-1J Skyraiders from Attack Squadron 196 (VA-196) “Main Battery” aboard the Essex-class aircraft...
View ArticleWelcome back: Chesapeake, Silversides, Pittsburgh
I’ve said it before, and I’ll repeat it, I think that traditional ship names for warships need to be recycled. That goes for any fleet, not just the U.S. Navy. While current SECNAV Kenneth J....
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America’s Hornet
How about this beautiful Full-Scale Development (FSD) YF-18A Hornet prototype #3 (BuNo 160777) grabbing some deck? I know the scheme isn’t practical, but it is striking. Official caption: An F/A-18...
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But do the guns still work?
Over the weekend I got a chance to stop off at one of my favorite places, the Battleship Alabama Park at the top of Mobile Bay. Doesn’t the old girl look great? This brings me to a semi-related video...
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Warship Wednesday, Jan.27, 2021: Of Kamikazes, Space Monkeys, and Exocets
Here at LSOZI, we take off every Wednesday for a look at the old steam/diesel navies of the 1833-1954 time period and will profile a different ship each week. These ships have a life, a tale all their...
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Bright Lights, Ancient Seas
From Commander, 6th Fleet PAO: The Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Porter (DDG 78) entered the Black Sea on a routine patrol, January 28, 2021, while conducting multi-domain...
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Vale, Great Grandfather Frog
Harry Milton Beal was born Aug. 16, 1930, in Meyersdale, Pennsylvania. Not wanting any part of the coal mines, he volunteered for the Navy in 1948 as a gunner’s mate, his first duty was aboard the...
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Yippe, is that you?
While bumping along Gulfport’s inner harbor the other day, I came across this old girl in the sea smoke. Photo by Chris Eger If her lines look vaguely patrol-boatish, Sea Hope is a 108-foot former...
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Sub-Marine ops, Back In style
The Marines have been rubber boating around, a skill they are used to as each Battalion Landing Team for years has typically included a designated “Boat Company,” trained to run about on 15-foot...
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Warship Wednesday, Feb. 10, 2021: Savior of the Sea of Marmora
Here at LSOZI, we take off every Wednesday for a look at the old steam/diesel navies of the 1833-1954 time period and will profile a different ship each week. These ships have a life, a tale all their...
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The Unlucky President
In honor of President’s Day, here is a beautiful pen and ink circa 1802 drawing by artist Antoine Roux of the 44-gun “Original Six” frigate, USS President. NHHC 76-327-a One of only two American...
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Ohio CRRCs
The Navy has recently released a sizzle reel and some additional images of the exercise earlier this month of Force Recon Marines and their combat rubber raiding craft (CRRCs) on the converted boomer...
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Remember The Maine! Revolver edition
From the Artifact Collection, Naval History, and Heritage Command: NHHC 1960-45-C One double-action Colt “New Navy” [ Model 1892 Army and Navy Colt] Revolver. The revolver shows extensive damage and...
View ArticleShe’s a Power Packin’ Mama
The intro copy of this epic 20-minute original 1944-era Jack Warner technicolor film on PT-boats, dubbed Devil Boats, is just great. She’s a patrol torpedo– a PT to the Navy and I guess only another...
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Navy Drops the Ax on Bonnie Dick, 2 LCS, and 3 PCs
As the fiscal year plays out the Navy has released tentative inactivation dates for eight vessels. One is the battered and economically unsavable USS Bon Homme Richard (LHD-6), which blazed away last...
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The Frigates Will Endure
Sure, the Resolute Desk is cool, but it isn’t this cool. Master Chief Petty Officer of the Navy, Russell Smith (MCPON), recently met a group of Seabees who have been working on a special project for...
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11 Months Underway
Ships assigned to the Nimitz Carrier Strike Group sail in formation with Indian navy ships during a cooperative deployment in the Indian Ocean, July 20, 2020. Photo By: Navy Petty Officer 2nd Class...
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