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Battleship No.35 Sails Again!
Ordered under the administration of William Howard Taft, USS Texas (BB-35) was laid down at Newport News in April 1911, making her hull some 111 years old. After service in both World Wars, the “Old...
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Well that’s something you don’t see everyday
Looks like the “Mighty T” made it to Galveston, where she is undergoing repairs in dry dock for the first time in 32 years. Early Wednesday morning, USS Texas (Battleship No. 35) was pulled out of her...
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80 Years Ago: The Worst, and Best, Telegrams, Back to Back
Via the South Pacific WWII Museum, Harold F. Rhone Collection photo. The telegram you don’t ever want to receive, followed not too long after by the one you do. September 1942 and Harold Rhone was...
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Travel!
Happy Labor Day! Enjoy your time off if you have it. I will! Poster, by Lou Nolan, C. 1960, depicting the FRAM’d World War II-era Fletcher-class destroyer USS Miller (DD-535), in a Cold War-era Asian...
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Warship Wednesday, Sept. 7, 2022: Come Hell or Low Water
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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After 60 years you’re still the most beautiful ship in the world
As we covered in a past Warship Wednesday on the Italian Navy’s historic nave scuola (training ship) Amerigo Vespucci (A5312), according to legend, while sailing in the Med in the 1960s, the...
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Welcome Back, Nautilus
The Submarine Force Museum Association, adjacent to U.S. Navy Submarine Base, Groton, welcomed the old USS Nautilus (SSN-571) in from the Thames River over the weekend following a $36 million...
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A Field of Devastators
13 September 1941, 81 years ago today: Douglas TBD-1 Devastator aircraft of Torpedo Squadron Five (VT-5) parked at Naval Air Station, Norfolk, Virginia. Douglas SBD-3 Dauntlesses of Bombing Squadron...
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Bring back the Garcias!
One big result from the end of the Cold War in 1989ish and the subsequent onset of the “peace dividend” in the early 1990s was that the near-600 ship U.S. Navy was drastically drawn down. While the...
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The Torch and the Torpedo Boat
For Liberty’s sake, enlist in the Navy! Recruiting poster showing the Statue of Liberty beaming brightly over the distinctive bow of a circa 1900s torpedo boat. Issued by the City of Boston Committee...
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165,000 tons of Rock & Roll, Ready for Their Close-up
40 Years Ago Today: A port beam view of Forrestal-class supercarriers, San Diego-homeported USS Ranger (CV-61) with Carrier Air Wing Two (CVW-2) aboard, and her sister, the Japan-based USS...
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80 Years Ago: Bering Sea Blues
That looks like a zero-gravity situation. Official caption: USS Bancroft (DD-598) in the Bering Sea under heavy weather, 1942. From the VADM Robert C. Giffen Photo Collection. Donor: ADM Shirley S....
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Bad month for Submarine Museums
While we have covered these in part in previous years, it looks like time has come and gone for the old HMAS Otama (SS 62/SSG 62), a retired Oberon-class diesel boat of the Royal Australian Navy that...
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Warship Wednesday, Sept. 24, 2022: Way Down Upon…
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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Once upon a time: Marine AV-8A Harriers Testing Sea Control Ship Concept
We’ve covered the trials and deployment of a Marine Hawker Siddeley AV-8A Harrier squadron, the Aces of VMA-231, on the Iwo Jima-class phib USS Guam (LPH-9) in 1976 on numerous occasions. Part of CNO...
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150 Years of Cruisers sent to Mothballs
Over the weekend, the Pascagoula-built Ticonderoga-class sisters USS Hué City (CG-66) and USS Anzio (CG-68) were decommissioned, ending the lengthy careers of the two cruisers. Ordered on the same day...
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‘A New Kind of Navy Man Pioneering a New Concept of Sea Power in the Age of...
Enjoy this great 27-minute circa 1960 film “Man And The FBM” covering the Navy’s Cold War Fleet Ballistic Missile submarine force and the UGM-27 Polaris nuclear-tipped SLBMs they carried. Keep in...
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Warship Wednesday, Sept. 28, 2022: Bats, Retiring from the Line
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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Ford Carrier Group to Actually Deploy Next Week (Kinda)
220917-N-TU663-1095 ATLANTIC OCEAN (Sept. 17, 2022) An F/A-18E Super Hornet attached to the “Gladiators” of Strike Fighter Squadron (VFA) 106 lands aboard the aircraft carrier USS Gerald R. Ford (CVN...
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Marines’ Ship-Killing RC Truck Gets (Some) Funding
A Navy-Marine Expeditionary Ship Interdiction System launcher deploys into position aboard Pacific Missile Range Facility Barking Sands, Hawaii, Aug. 16, 2021. U.S. Marine Corps photo by Maj. Nick...
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