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Magnolia State Subs
While most people are aware that there is a current submarine on the Navy List that has a Mississippi connection– the Virginia-class hunter-killer USS Mississippi (SSN-782) which was commissioned at...
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Negative, Ghostrider
What a stirring photo: A F/A-18F Super Hornet from the “Jolly Rogers” of Strike Fighter Squadron (VFA) 103 buzzes the new Flight II Burke-class destroyer USS Delbert D. Black (DDG 119) in the...
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Patched Minnie gets back to work
Some 80 years ago today, check out these beautiful original color images of the New Orleans-class light/heavy cruiser USS Minneapolis (CA-36), seen at Pearl Harbor Naval Shipyard on 11 April 1943,...
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Thresher at 60
Laid down only four short years after the world’s first nuclear-powered submarine, USS Nautilus (SSN-571) took to the sea, USS Thresher (SSN-593) was the lead ship of her 14-unit class. USS Thresher....
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Warship Wednesday, April 12, 2023: Wind Them Up
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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Dogs Playing Poker, Capt. Casey edition
Happy National Bulldog Day! This 1891 photograph via the Detroit Photographic Company shows Captain Silas Casey III (USNA 1860), skipper of the cruiser USS Newark (C-1), sitting in his well-furnished...
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A fitting cap on the Freedom-variant LCS
In an allegory to the tale of the 16 vessel class, the final monohulled Freedom-variant Littoral Combat Ship, the future USS Cleveland (LCS 31), was christened and launched last weekend at the...
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Navy orders fresh batch of 40 Foot Patrol Boats
The U.S. Navy appears to be very much still in the small boat biz, despite the fact that it has retired the 82-foot Mark V SOC, zeroed out FY23 funding for the Mark VI patrol boat (with retired boats...
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Warship Wednesday, May 3, 2023: Where Dewey and Halsey Intersect
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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Wicked Monstah Boat
The 25th Virginia-class hunter-killer, USS Massachusetts (SSN 798), was christened at Newport News over the weekend, with a tentative commissioning date of May 2024 in Boston. She will be the fifth...
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Peak Knox, underway
A beautiful photo essay on the Knox-class destroyer escort/fast frigate USS Donald B. Beary (DE/FF 1085), seen circa April 1989 off Hampton Roads. This is a great example of the class in its final...
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Warship Wednesday, May 10, 2023: The Sleazy B
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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Bookends, Flattops
Two very interesting things have occurred in the past few weeks when it comes to the Navy’s capital ships. First, USS Nimitz (CVN 68), the oldest-serving U.S. commissioned aircraft carrier in the...
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Spotted in the Mississippi Sound: Cool Little Haze Gray AUSVs
So we came across this interesting little guy while wandering around the small craft harbor in Gulfport last week. A closer look shows lots of solar panels on the folded sail over a torpedo-shaped...
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Logging that Pattaya Beach time
The Cooperation Afloat Readiness and Training (CARAT) series of bilateral military exercises conducted between the U.S. Pacific Fleet and allied nations in Southeast Asia, never really gets a lot of...
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Billions on missiles, Austal gets new T-AGOS contract, FFG 65 ordered
Pentagon contracts of note that were released yesterday. Make of them what you will. Emphasis mine. Lockheed Martin Corp., Missile and Fire Control, Orlando, Florida, was awarded a $750,552,869...
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Remembering Scorpion
Still on patrol, USS Scorpion (SSN 589) There are no roses on a sailor’s grave, no lilies on an ocean wave, the only tribute is the seagull’s sweeps, and the tears that a sweetheart weeps.
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First Flight III Burke Just Finished trials
The future USS Jack H. Lucas (DDG 125), the first Flight III Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer, has been quietly under construction at Ingalls since 2019, just marked the successful...
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Vermont, heading out
How about these epic shots via General Dynamics Electric Boat of the Block IV Virginia-class hunter killer USS Vermont (SSN-792) heading out from the Groton shipyard on sea trials on 6 May following...
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Contested Logistics: Pacific War
This photograph shows four Vought OS-2 Kingfishers of Scouting Squadron 2 (VS-2) on Bora Bora. A Quonset hut is visible behind the line of trees and camouflage netting. Bora Bora, whose conditions...
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