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Remembering Thresher
Via the U.S. Naval Institute On this day in 1963, 129 men were lost when the USS Thresher (SSN-593) sank during deep-dive tests in the Atlantic Ocean. After hearing about the disaster, the young son of...
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Warship Wednesday, April 14, 2021: Just a Little DASH
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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Happy Tax Day: First LCS makes last deployment
210412-N-NN369-1046 SAN DIEGO (April 12, 2021) Littoral combat ship USS Freedom (LCS 1) returns to Naval Base San Diego from her final deployment, April 12. Freedom returned after supporting Joint...
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‘Cognitive Warfare’ and Chinese Aircraft Carriers
A recent photo of the CO and XO of the Flight IIA Burke-class destroyer USS Mustin (DDG-89) observing the Chinese Type 001 (Kuznetsov-class) aircraft carrier Liaoning (16) off the warship’s port side...
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A Visit to USS Trenton, circa 1886
The first warship to carry the name of the New Jersey capital city famous for a Christmas-time visit from General Washington was a 3,800-ton steam frigate commissioned on 14 February 1877, armed with...
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Happy National Book Day
Official caption: With a loaded M2 .50-caliber machine gun close at hand, one crewman reads a book while another keeps watch off the stern as their PB Mark III patrol boat cuts through the water of the...
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The 2nd Squadron of Evolution
The “White Squadron” or “Squadron of Evolution” underway off the U.S. East Coast, circa 1891. Ships are, (I-R): YORKTOWN (PG-1), BOSTON (1887) CONCORD (PG-3), ATLANTA (1887), NEWARK (C-1) CHICAGO...
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Warship Wednesday, April 28, 2021: Kan-do Kangaroo
Here at LSOZI, we take off every Wednesday to look at the old steam/diesel navies of the 1833-1954 period and profile a different ship each week. These ships have a life, a tale all their own, which...
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First pic of the Marines’ new Ship Killing Trucks
Raytheon just released a Navy-credited image of the Navy-Marine Expeditionary Ship Interdiction System, or NMESIS, at work at Point Magu. The vehicle, which looks to be Oshkosh’s unmanned variant of...
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Queen City Slammer
Here we see, 70 years ago today, the Cleveland-class light cruiser USS Manchester (CL-83) alongside the ammunition ship USS Mount Katmai (AE-16) at Wonsan Harbor, Korea, on 3 May 1951. To save time...
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Warship Wednesday, May 12, 2021: Linguine with Clam Sauce
Here at LSOZI, we take off every Wednesday for a look at the old steam/diesel navies of the 1833-1954 period and will profile a different ship each week. These ships have a life, a tale all their own,...
View ArticleNavy is Making Some Good Docs Lately
While normally good for sub-2-minute “hero reels” and moto videos, and undigestible dry news reports with low production values, the sea service rarely produces really good long-format pieces. That...
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Back to the Rock
“Dug Out Doug” MacArthur and the “Bataan Gang” returning to Corregidor in March 1945 on, appropriately, a group of four Navy PT-boats. (U.S. Air Force Photo Number 82288AC, NARA 204999579) To his...
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Happy 207th, Herr Freeman, of Mobile Bay (in)Fame(y)
While poking around Pascagoula’s Greenwood Cemetery (I have tons of childhood/teenage stories about this place logged in my time as a “Goula Boy,” but I digress) last week, I paid my respects at the...
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PT Boat’s guns Sting Japanese Tonys
Offical caption, circa December 1943: “Flashing its swift, elusive way through Pacific combat waters, a PT boat turns its guns on a pair of Tonys [Japanese Kawasaki Ki-61 Hiens] which suddenly swoop...
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Ike Zapper
Official caption: “ARABIAN SEA (April 13, 2021) An E/A-18G Growler attached to the “Zappers” of Electronic Attack Squadron (VAQ) 130 prepares to land on the flight deck aboard the aircraft carrier USS...
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Frogman Art
Although lots of people harp on the JFK connection to today’s SEALs, the fact is, they were just an updated rebranding of units that date back to the old UDTs and NCDUs (Naval Combat Demolition Unit)...
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One Phast Phantom, 60 Years Ago Today
Via the National Naval Aviation Museum: Future astronaut LT Richard F. Gordon, Jr., and his radar intercept officer, LT (J.G.) Bobbie R. Young, pictured with the Bendix Trophy they captured for flying...
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USS Mobile Gras
While The Big Easy gets all the attention when it comes to Mardi Gras, it should be pointed out that Mobile, Alabama, home to the Bienville-founded French colony around Fort Conde/Fort Louis going...
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Warship Wednesday, May 26, 2021: Baked New Hampshire
Here at LSOZI, we take off every Wednesday for a look at the old steam/diesel navies of the 1833-1954 period and will profile a different ship each week. These ships have a life, a tale all their own,...
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