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Pacific Outpost Citadels: Full Speed Ahead in 2023
Interesting year-end contract announcements from DOD, emphasis mine: Lockheed Martin Rotary and Mission Systems, Moorestown, New Jersey, is being awarded an undefinitized contract action (UCA), with a...
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Warship Wednesday, Jan. 4, 2023: Diving the New World
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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Historic WWII PT Boat for Sale
If you are around the New Orleans area and have some spare pocket change… PT-8 underway, date and location unknown. Naval History & Heritage Command photo NH 100908 The aluminum hull PT-8 cruising...
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Help: Q on Mounting of .50 cal on submarine
Dear followers, I received the following email from Richard Pekelney, one of the crew restoring USS Pampanito (SS-383), a WW II submarine museum and memorial in San Francisco. Pampanito in more modern...
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Slow salute to the survey foot
“Ensign Virginia McKachern studies a chart in the Port Director’s Office, Jacksonville, Florida, to which she is now attached. Hydrographic distribution has become a function of this office,...
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‘Home port Yokosuka’
Caption: “Painting by Arthur Beaumont, 1961. USS Duncan (DD-874) leads USS Mansfield (DD-728) and other destroyers into the Yokosuka, Japan, naval base. In the background is the aircraft carrier USS...
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130 Years Ago: Boxing up the Queen’s Own
The below image details Queen Liliuokalani’s 272-man Royal Household Guard being disarmed by Col. John Harris Soper, late of the California National Guard and a former Marshal of the Kingdom of...
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Warship Wednesday, Jan. 18, 2023: First Trap
Here at LSOZI, we take off every Wednesday for a look at the old steam/diesel navies of the 1833-1954 time period and will profile a different ship each week. These ships have a life, a tale all their...
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San Fran Triple Flats
San Francisco Naval Shipyard: a trio of Essex-class carriers, left-to-right, USS Hancock (CVA-19), USS Oriskany CVA-34), and USS Bennington (CVA-20), 3 October 1957. Denham/NARA # 80-G-K-23227. Of...
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Make way for Yorktown!
80 years ago today: The brand-new Essex-class fleet carrier USS Yorktown (CV 10), was launched at Newport News Shipbuilding, Virginia, on 21 January 1943. U.S. Navy photograph, now in the collections...
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Mush v the Harusame
80 years ago today: The Shiratsuyu-class destroyer Harusame of the Imperial Japanese Navy was torpedoed by the famed Gato-class submarine USS Wahoo (SS-238) under the command of LCDR Dudley Walker...
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Warship Wednesday, Jan. 25, 2023: The Kaiser’s Tin Cans do Broadway
Here at LSOZI, we take off every Wednesday for a look at the old steam/diesel navies of the 1833-1954 time period and will profile a different ship each week. These ships have a life, a tale all their...
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Shoehorned Greyhounds
Mare Island Naval Shipyard‘s Dry Dock No. 2 is filled with six unidentified “four-piper” type flush-deck destroyers circa 1922. To the side, you can see California Avenue, east side near Ninth Street,...
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Warship Wednesday, Feb. 1, 2023: A Hectic 133 Days
Here at LSOZI, we take off every Wednesday for a look at the old steam/diesel navies of the 1833-1954 time period and will profile a different ship each week. These ships have a life, a tale all their...
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Scouting Force
Some of the heaviest of heavy sluggers in the Pacific War were the Pensacola and Northampton classes of heavy “treaty cruisers.” Below is a rare snap of seven of these vessels all in one place at one...
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Float Around and Find Out
Unless you have been in a cave in the woods the past week, the whole country was abuzz over the maneuverable Chinese “commercial weather” balloon that crossed from Montana to South Carolina. Sure, it...
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Warship Wednesday, Feb. 8, 2023: The Only ‘T’ in the P-class
Here at LSOZI, we take off every Wednesday for a look at the old steam/diesel navies of the 1833-1954 time period and will profile a different ship each week. These ships have a life, a tale all their...
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Shades of Gray
Check out this great shot from the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force Fleet feed. Taken on 5 February, it shows the Takanami-class destroyer JS Makinami (DD-112) steaming close by the...
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Of Norwegian P-8s, NDSTC, and Nordstream…
“Munin,” (SN 169586) the third out of five Boeing P-8 Poseidon (militarized 737-800) maritime patrol aircraft on order for the Royal Norwegian Air Force seen landing for the first time in its home...
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Submarine updates: USS Albacore found, SSN-23 Turns 18, U-17 Finds a Home
Lots of submarine news broke over the weekend, and all of it deserving of a pause to cover. USS Albacore found One of the most successful American subs of WWII, the Gato-class fleet boat USS Albacore...
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