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Warship Wednesday, June 30, 2021: Cleaning Up After the Queen
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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RIP Thunder’s Tavern
To many followers of the page, including destroyermen, cruiser sailors, battleship sailors, and members of the Gator Navy– who have at one time or another passed through Pascagoula in the past 40~...
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Must Be the Haze Grey
The Nauticus National Maritime Center in Norfolk reports: Two Ospreys began building upon the TACAN antennae back in April, which is a smooth surface and convex in shape. Similar to the Battleship...
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Warship Wednesday, July 7, 2021: Chatham’s Last Cruiser
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 ArticleDid you Know the North Carolina-class Battleships had Remotely Controlled...
I, for one, did not. Not bad for a circa 1937 battlewagon. Ryan Szimanski, the curator for Battleship New Jersey, is on the road and has a great installment on search lamps and star shells from the...
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RN Flattops Echo History in the Med
Moving on to the second leg of the Royal Navy’s 28-week CSG21 deployment (which has already seen combat sorties), HMS Queen Elizabeth (R08), along with her task force, on 6 July passed into the Suez...
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Warship Wednesday, July 14, 2021: The Edison Bubblehead Connection
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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One of these things is not like the Others
Two Forrestal-class supercarriers, (listed from bottom to top) USS Independence (CVA-62), and USS Saratoga (CVA-60), steaming alongside the Essex-class fleet carrier USS Intrepid (CVA-11). Underway in...
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Time Capsule, Bonita in Beantown Edition
95 Years Ago: Check out this great shot of the V-class/Barracuda-class diesel-electric submarine USS V-3 (SF-6) at the Boston Navy Yard, most likely in June/July 1926, shortly after her commissioning...
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Tip of the Spear
Sail looking kinda rough, but keep in mind that Springer was commissioned 28 years ago. Also, how long before you spot the M249 light machine gun? APRA HARBOR, Guam (July 8, 2021) Sailors aboard the...
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Rig for divers
COMSUBPAC recently released several images of things you don’t usually see: Dry Deck Shelter and submerged diver operations on a Virginia-class hunter-killer submarine. PACIFIC OCEAN (June 18, 2021) —...
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Get Your BBQ on this weekend
I’ve heard of steel beach picnics, but maybe this is more of an aluminum beach event. Official caption: “Cam Ranh Bay, Republic of Vietnam. Engineman Second Class D.W. Kirkpatrick barbecues some...
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Talisman Sabre Photoex
Talk about a great shot. The ships of the forward-deployed USS America (LHA 6) Expeditionary Strike Group steam in formation during Talisman Sabre (TS) 21 in conjunction with warships from Australia,...
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Warship Wednesday, July 28, 2021: What a Loony Idea
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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Smokey’s Lucky Witch, 77 Years Ago Today
Ensign Darrell C. “Smoke” Bennett, A-V(N), USNR, stands beside his plane, a General Motors FM-2 Wildcat fighter, on board the Casablanca-class escort carrier USS Gambier Bay (CVE-73), 1 August 1944....
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Half a Deck
Here we see a good overhead shot of a modern Landing Helicopter Assault (LHA) ship, essentially a straight-decked aircraft carrier (USS America does not have a well deck) with berthing for 1,687...
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Squishnut up for sale, cheap!
The Navy was already experienced in marine salvage prior to World War II. However, the service did not have ships specifically designed and built for salvage work when it entered WWII, and it was not...
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Curious Craft from Austal
Mobile, Alabama-based Austal USA, builder of the Navy’s Spearhead-class Expeditionary Fast Transport (EPF)– which have gotten good reviews– and the Independence-class littoral combat ship– you know,...
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Cod, Underway
The famed Gato-class fleet boat USS Cod (SS/AGSS/IXSS-224), who earned seven battle stars across the same number of War Patrols against the Japanese Empire, has been a lovingly cared-for museum ship...
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Farewell, Ingraham, you deserved better (but NMESIS works)
Smoke billows from the decommissioned guided-missile frigate ex-USS Ingraham during a sinking exercise in the Pacific, Aug. 15. (U.S. Navy/MC1 David Mora Jr.) Same, (U.S. Navy photo by Mass...
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