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Warship Wednesday, April 6, 2022: The Forlorn Hope
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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April Showers
Artwork titled “April Showers- USS Enterprise,” by artist Commander Edward T. Grigware, shows the flight deck and island of the Yorktown-class aircraft carrier Enterprise (CV 6) in 1944. In the...
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The last T-bone, 10 cents a peek
“Jamboree Day” on USS Yorktown (CV-5), 10 April 1942. Parading the last T-bone steak on board. Two sailors displaying a sign that reads “Special Slide Show. Big T-Bone Steak. The only one in captivity....
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Ukrainian Coasties get Switchblades
Right around the corner from me, in the green “dark space” that is Stennis, the Navy has NAVSCIATTS, the old small boat schoolhouse that moved there after Rodman Naval Station went full-Panama in the...
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Moskova (Slava) confirmed sunk, prepare the lasers!
The old Cold War headline, familiar again, “TASS reports….” The official Russian state media announcements on the Project 1164 Atlant cruiser Moskova/Moskva (ex-Soviet Slava), in three headlines and...
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Hard Luck Tin Can, or The Ever-Sinking The Sullivans
Back in March 2021, we talked about the struggling circa 1943 Fletcher-class destroyer USS The Sullivans (DD-537) that was slowly taking on water as she served as a museum ship in Buffalo, New York....
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Warship Wednesday, April 20, 2022: A Member of the Easter Egg Fleet
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 ArticleMaking like its 1942 Again
While today’s modern nuclear-powered submarines have surveillance, strike, ASW, and AShW as their primary missions, they also can still do well in that most age-old of submarine tasks– inserting small...
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The Sullivans: The Pumps are on and She is Looking Better
We’ve covered the porous hull saga of the USS The Sullivans several times in the past couple of years and the latest is (a modest) improvement. First, the flooding is at least being controlled and the...
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80 Years Ago Today: Hornet and Mosquitos
The floating “Shangri-La,” the Yorktown-class carrier USS Hornet (CV-8) arrives at Pearl Harbor directly after the Doolittle Raid on Japan, 30 April 1942. Her harbor escorts, a pair of early 77-foot...
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Sully Update: 51 Holes Plugged, 95 % of Water Out, Near Even Keel
From the Buffalo and Erie County Naval and Military Park: The mission to #SaveTheSullivans has officially transitioned from an Emergency Response Phase to a Maintenance and Decontamination Phase as...
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A brutal season, 80 years ago today
There are dozens of photos taken by the assembled escorts of the stricken aircraft carrier USS Lexington (CV-2) as she underwent her death throes on the morning of 8 May 1942 during the Battle of the...
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Warship Wednesday, May 11, 2022: The Dirty D
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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What could have been…
Below we see the Kidd-class destroyer USS Scott (DDG-995)— what the Spruances should have been– seen with four vessels of the Spanish Navy: the fleet tanker Marques de la Ensenada (A-11), the...
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Darby et al, get the Gold
U.S. Army Rangers assigned to the 75th Ranger Regiment, including some in vintage WWII-era uniforms of Darby’s 2nd Rangers, climb the cliffs at Pointe du Hoc, in Cricqueville en Bessin, France June 4,...
View ArticleKeeping up with traditions
Newport News Shipbuilding welded a time capsule inside the flight deck control room of PCU John F. Kennedy (CVN 79) in April. The time capsule – which contains letters to future ship leaders,...
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Fantail shooting
Growing up in Pascagoula, I had a neighbor that was an old GM2 (who one day became a GM3 out of the blue) who would regale and amaze me with sea tales of guns big and small. One weekend, he had a load...
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Old Hunters Fading Away
Over the weekend, three high-mileage and very effective SSNs were put to pasture, accounting for a century of operations between them. In the UK, two of the remaining class of seven Trafalgar-class...
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Ghost Riders and the regular crew
A mix of beautiful full-color A-4 Skyhawks of Attack Carrier Air Wing 21 (CVW-21– NP tail code) are parked on the flight deck of the modified Essex-class attack aircraft carrier (and Warship Wednesday...
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Warship Wednesday, May 25, 2022: I’m Not as Good as I Once Was
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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