Saving The Sullivans: A Call to Action
The Fletcher-class destroyer USS The Sullivans (DD-537) was launched at Bethleham Steel on 4 April 1943, sponsored by the grieving Mrs. Thomas F. Sullivan, mother of the five late Sullivan brothers,...
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Warship Wednesday, March 3, 2021: Crossing the Delaware to See the World
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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PT Boat Tender: 2021 Edition
Offical caption for these images: PHILIPPINE SEA (Feb. 25, 2021) Sailors with Bravo Company, Maritime Expeditionary Security Squadron 2 [formerly Coastal Riverine Squadron Two], maneuver a U.S. Navy...
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Not the *Good* China…
While the traditional naval practice of separate wardrooms/messing for enlisted, chiefs, and officers is standard knowledge, something I did not know about until this week was the practice of...
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Warship Wednesday, March 10, 2021. Philly L boats: The Retractables
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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Want to Browse 8,800 Historic Naval Gun Files?
NARA’s Cartographic Branch recently completed more than 8,880 item descriptions for one of its highly referenced naval series, Construction and Design Drawings of Guns, Related Machinery and Parts,...
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About that Chunk of the Yamato’s Armor in D.C.
If you are a fan of naval history, odds are you have seen the famous 25- or 26-inch thick section of turret face plate armor, meant for a Japanese Yamato class battleship, that was found at the Kure...
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Warship Wednesday: March 17, 2021, Shamrock Cans
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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Have a Spare Mk 1 Fire Control Computer in your Garage?
This thing: If you do, the battleship USS Massachusetts (BB-59) museum wants to talk to you. From the museum: The Mk 1 Fire Control Computers that served onboard Big Mamie has been missing for decades...
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Batty Corsairs
Vought O2U-1 Corsair (Bu. No. A-7528) floatplane in flight during fleet maneuvers off Cuba, circa 1928. The plane is from Observation Plane Squadron Three, Scouting Fleet (VO-3S), and is based on the...
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Fairly Well Preserved Ammo for 50 Years in the Drink
Vietnamese media recently reported on a pile of vintage small arms ammo that was recovered from the mud of the Tiền River that looks like it just came from the factory. Local media showed members of...
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Little Blue Men en masse
It appears that a huge flotilla of 220 People’s Armed Forces Maritime Militia vessels are massed at Julian Felipe Reef in the West Philippine Sea, notably inside what the Philippines sees as its EEZ....
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ZR-3, Meet CV-3: Spotting Deck Space for a Zeppelin
On 27 January 1928, the Navy airship USS Los Angeles (ZR-3) conducted a landing on the brand-new Lexington-class battlecruiser/carrier conversion, USS Saratoga (CV-3). The event saw the Zeppelin...
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Warship Wednesday, March 31, 2021: NOLA by way of Brazil
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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Behind the scenes of being a ‘Bee stuck in the mud of Camp Shelby
Spending most of my life on the Mississippi Gulf Coast, interacting with friends and co-workers who had spent time as one of the Navy’s most unsung sailors– Seabees– has been common as about half of...
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Higgins 78, in Detail
Here we see a great series of shots of the PT-71-class 78-foot motor torpedo boat USS PT-200, while her builders– at Higgins Industries, New Orleans, Louisiana– taken January 26, 1942. All are...
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SOCOM Getting More Precision rifles
When it comes to new guns for SOCOM, the command’s FY21 budget justification book details that over the past two years 1,562 MK27s (Glock 19 Gen 4s) were acquired along with 1,930 Upper Receiver...
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57-Year Old SSBN Finally Retires
Long the last remaining boat of her class still afloat, the Moored Training Ship Sam Rayburn (MTS 635) was originally commissioned 2 December 1964 as SSBN-635, part of the James Madison-class of Cold...
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Surplus Tin Cans of Asia
It always seemed that America’s former SEATO and ROK allies were always particularly adept at keeping weary second-hand escort vessels in service long past their prime. For instance, the Philipines...
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If you happen to be Bored…
…And looking for some naval scholarship, check out the latest issue of Warship International (Vol. 58) published by the International Naval Research Organization. In its pages, you will find a 23-page...
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