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Remember the Reason Today
Keep in mind today the real reason why the mail doesn’t run, public employees have a three-day weekend, and why your mailbox is full of tasteless fliers. USS Indianapolis (CA-35) commissioning...
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The Black Dragon back on patrol, 35 years ago today
This June 1, 1986 photo shows an aerial port beam view of a seven-vessel battleship surface action group along with five allied destroyers and frigates of the Royal Australian Navy in the Western...
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No More Negative Waves from Moriarty and the Passing of the Bluejacket SECNAV
Two former enlisted men who had an outsized effect on naval history and culture shoved off for the great libo party in the sky last week. Allan George See was born in Mount Kisco, New York in 1931,...
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Welcome to the (Hopefully) 296-Ship Navy
The president’s fiscal year 2022 budget request has gone live and it includes a modest 2.7 percent pay raise (what is the inflation rate?) and “the largest-ever research, development, test and...
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Cruising the Beach
Allied warships of Bombarding Force ‘C’, which supported the landings in the Omaha Beach area on June 6, 1944, as part of Operation Neptune/Overlord. The picture was taken from the frigate HMS Holmes...
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Alabama Picking Up Measure 22, Again
“Big Grey Al” has been a regular feature in Mobile Bay for over 50 years, guarding the entry to Mobile along the Moon Pie City’s Western Shore. Note her distinctive large SK3 radar antenna array near...
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Warship Wednesday, June 9, 2021: First of the Jeep Carriers
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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Loyal Wingman, 1974 Edition
Of course, you have probably seen this, the first successful mid-air refueling of an F-18 from an MQ-25 UAV in naval history, which occurred 4 June. The fact that this could eliminate tying down...
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Learning all about the Anti-submarine …guns
Official caption: A blue jacket aboard Pennsylvania telling two feminine visitors all about the mechanism of the anti-submarine guns, December 1918. Photo by Underwood & Underwood via the National...
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The Navy’s Other Small Boats
With the promised retirement of the dozen low-mileage Mark VI patrol boats by the Navy, it should be noted that service is not totally absent of small boats, still having the 33-foot SOC-R riverine...
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Warship Wednesday, June 16, 2021: Rig for Red
Here at LSOZI, we will take off every Wednesday to look at the old steam/diesel navies of the 1833-1946 time period and profile a different ship each week. These ships have a life, a tale all their...
View ArticleBig Mamie Delivers on her No. 6 mount
To mark the passage of last Memorial Day two weeks ago, the museum ship USS Massachusetts (BB-59). let one of her 5″/38 DP guns bark a salute. Via Battleship Cove comes this video of the event, in...
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Sprite Underbelly
Here we see an unusual 1982 shot, not so much for its subject, but for the angle, a bottom view of an SH-2 Seasprite Mark 1 Light Airborne Multi-Purpose System (LAMPS I) helicopter in flight. Note the...
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Ford Gets a Shock
The world’s largest warship and the lead ship of her class, the supercarrier USS Gerald R. Ford (CVN 78) has been getting rocked by underwater explosions in Full Ship Shock Trials while underway in...
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The More Things Change, Forward Mount Edition
The guns may have shrunk, along with the ships, but the task remains. Bluejackets standing atop turret No. 1 to clean the 12-inch/50 caliber Mark 7 guns in turret No. 2 aboard the brand new dreadnought...
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Echos of USS Robin
In November 1942, with the U.S. Navy down to just two fleet carriers in the Pacific– Saratoga and Enterprise— the Royal Navy helped out its ally with the loan of the Illustrious-class aircraft carrier...
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Austal One of Five in Running for Navy’s New Expeditionary LSTs
Austal– who has been making 417-foot Independence-class littoral combat ships (the ones that actually kind of work) and 337-foot Spearhead-class expeditionary fast transport (EPF) vessel at their U.S....
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Independence Class LCS = Surveillance Frigates
PHILIPPINE SEA (June 13, 2021) Independence-variant littoral combat ship USS Tulsa (LCS 16) conducts routine operations in the Philippine Sea. Tulsa, part of Destroyer Squadron Seven, is on a...
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Pan Am Clipper, Mariner Edition
This beautiful original Kodachrome taken in January 1943, shows a Glenn L. Martin Company PBM-3R Mariner flying boat picking up dual Navy and Pan American Airways markings, likely at the...
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Talk About a Recruiting Poster
STRAIT OF MALACCA (June 18, 2021) The Navy’s only forward-deployed aircraft carrier USS Ronald Reagan (CVN 76) transits the South China Sea with the Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS...
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