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Navy says Wisconsin gets to Keep the Badger Shield, for now
The Wisconsin State Capitol building has a venerated relic on loan from the Navy, the Badger and Shield crest that was crafted from melted-down Spanish cannons seized in Cuba during the...
View ArticleFab Flattop Five! 365K tons of Good Times
What do you get when you take two 105,000-ton supercarriers, add two chunky 42,000-ton Goula-built LHD/LHAs, and a 20,000-ton Japanese “helicopter destroyer” along with their five principal surface...
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Walking the Beat, USS Charleston
Great visuals here. Ensign, Naval Strike Missiles, force protection detail, deck gun, South Pacific clime, submarine tender in the distance. Naval heritage carried over from generations past. APRA...
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WisKy Delivering in the ROK
80 years ago: The Iowa-class fast battleship USS Wisconsin (BB-64) fires a three-gun salvo from her forward 16″/50 caliber gun turret, during bombardment duty on the “bombline” off Korea. The original...
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M14 Still Getting it Done in the Fleet
Looking like a recruiting poster aimed at gun nerds, the Navy recently published a series of photos showing the M14 (MK 14) still very much in use. Check out this supped-up and chopped-down model in...
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Clagamore, down for the count
We’ve talked about the GUPPY’d Gato-class “fleet boat” USS Clamagore (SS-343) a few times in the past as she is not only historically significant, long being one of the best-preserved of her type...
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Going Loud
You just gotta love a fiddy. Because 761-grains of armor-piercing incendiary tracer can send just the right message sometimes when folks get too close for comfort. Aviation Ordnanceman Airman...
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Adm. Semmes gets a home
Facing a $25K-a-day fine from the Alabama Attorney General’s Office, the City of Mobile has moved the recently toppled statue of the former U.S. Navy CDR/C.S. Navy ADM/C.S. Army B. Gen., Raphael...
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Warship Wednesday, Feb. 2, 2022: Lucky Herndon
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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Robbie’s Destroyer
Here we see a great traditional group shot of the crew of the San Diego-based, Pascagoula-built, Flight I Arleigh Burke-class destroyer USS Stethem (DDG 63) that was posted this week. You may notice...
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Bay Area Ranger, Ranger, and Ranger
Here we see the old ferry house across from Vallejo at Mare Island, California, about 1892. The Alert-class gunboat USS Ranger (PG-23) is in the right background, with the crew’s hammocks and washing...
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Black Bunny gets some Love!
If you ever built a scale model in the 1980s (raises hands), odds are you may have had (or at least pined for) one particular U.S. Navy F-4S Phantom II, that of The Evaluators of VX-4’s “Black...
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Med Top Trio
Lots of joint carrier ops lately, with the Brits, Japanese and 7th Fleet steaming a trio of flattops in the Pacific (HMS Queen Elizabeth, USS America, JS Ise) last August while a five-flattop...
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Slumming it in the colonies
What an idyllic nautical scene! This image, posted by the Forces Armées de la Nouvelle-Calédonie, the French garrison in their of New Caledonia, is of the Floréal-class light surveillance frigate...
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100 Years Ago: Big Gun Pink Slips
The scene in the Naval Gun Shop, Washington, D.C. 10 February 1922. 16-inch guns under construction. “Shop is idle today, employees numbering 1,350 having been laid off yesterday.” (As a result of...
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Greyhound Kennel
Just under 20 years out from Pearl Harbor, here we see a hardworking U.S. Navy destroyer tender nestling her charges in a Japanese home port. Said “little boys” include four slim WWII-Veteran...
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Warship Wednesday, Feb. 16, 2022: Long Lance in the Night
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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Big Al, Now 80 Years Young
The third USS Alabama (Battleship No. 60) was laid down at the Norfolk Navy Yard where she was christened and launched on 16 February 1942; sponsored by Mrs. Lister Hill, wife of the senior Senator...
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Houston, departing
Here, 80 years ago today, we see the Northampton-class heavy cruiser USS Houston (CA-30), as viewed through the sight of an Australian 4-inch gun on the beach at Darwin, Australia, on 18 February...
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Happy President’s Day! CV-42 edition
An F-4N Phantom II (BuNo. 151008) of Fighter Squadron (VF) 111, the “Sundowners,” part of Carrier Air Wing 19 (CVW-19), launching from the USS Franklin D. Roosevelt (CV 42) operating in the...
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