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USS Mannert L. Abele, found
The only warship named for CDR Mannert Lincoln “Jim” Abele (USNA 1926), a posthumous Navy Cross-earning submarine skipper who was thought to have bagged three Japanese destroyers in a single day...
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Cold Warriors in Kodachrome
Official caption: “A Helicopter Combat Support Squadron 2 (HC-2) SH-3G Sea King helicopter takes off from the stern of the dock landing ship USS Mount Vernon (LSD 39). A Mark 33 3-inch/50-caliber...
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New Contracts: SSN 812 and SSN 813, T-AO 213, Next Gen Sub Tech
These three interesting mentions from DOD in the past week include the next two Virginia-class hunter killers (SSN 812 & 813)– which will be Block V subs if not improved Block VI boats, which will...
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Warship Wednesday, May 31, 2023: USS Fallout
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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Flattops (and drones) Making Waves
After what must have been a staggering yard period for the crew, the sixth Nimitz-class nuclear-powered aircraft carrier, USS George Washington (CVN 73), has finally been redelivered to the Navy after...
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Bombarding Force ‘C’
Allied warships of Bombarding Force C, which supported the landings in the Omaha Beach area on June 6, 1944. The column is led by USS Texas (Battleship No. 35) (left), still with her 1930s mast...
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Mines, Mines, Mines
Word is that Australia plans to invest the equivalent of $800 Million in new sea mines, sourced from Italy. Comparatively, the Chinese have an active offensive mining development program counting an...
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Warship Wednesday, June 7, 2023: Shutterbug SSK
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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Diverse firepower
80 years ago this month: British and American Navy Forces in Combined Exercises, June 1943, off Scapa Flow. Shown are two very different battlewagons including the brand new SoDak-class fast...
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Warship Wednesday, June 14, 2023: Shoestring Tin Dragon
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 Apple Kingfishers
80 years ago today: Casco Bay, Maine, June 1943, a trio of OS2U Kingfisher floatplanes of Observation Squadron Five (VO-5) aboard the battlewagon USS New York (BB-34) while anchored at Casco Bay,...
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The beginning of the final LCS
Austal USA in Mobile last week celebrated keel-laying of what likely will be the last Littoral Combat Ship to enter U.S. Navy service, LCS-38. The 19th of the Independence-class LCSs built in Mobile,...
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Welcome Back, Iowa
The future USS Iowa (SSN 797) was officially christened by Christie Vilsack, the ship’s sponsor and former first lady of Iowa, during a ceremony at the Electric Boat shipyard facility in Groton,...
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Warship…err, how about Mud Cat?
On the road this week covering an industry event in Oregon so not enough spare time on hand to do a proper Warship Wednesday. In lieu, and in a salute to all this rain we seem to be getting, how about...
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She deserved better
65 years ago today. The well-traveled Yorktown-class aircraft carrier, ex-USS Enterprise (CVS-6) awaiting disposal at the New York Naval Shipyard on 22 June 1958. She was sold for scrapping ten days...
View ArticleThat Carrier Life, Mike Rowe version
I’ve always liked Mike Rowe’s work and was thrilled to meet him at an NSSF event at SHOT Show a few years ago. Really great storyteller. Probably our generation’s Mark Twain. On his new “Somebody’s...
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Navy picking up more high-speed target boats
One of last week’s more interesting DOD contracts: Silver Ships Inc.,* Theodore, Alabama, is awarded a $7,814,630 firm-fixed-price modification to previously-awarded contract N00024-23-F-2201 for the...
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Cold Ranger, squishy date
Some 80 years ago. Maybe. “Crewmembers aboard the aircraft carrier USS Ranger (CV-4) clean snow off of the aircraft during operations in the North Atlantic on 29 June 1943.” Note the snow-dusted TBF...
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USS Recruit Now Open to the Public
A two-thirds-sized replica landlocked Dealey-class destroyer escort built by the Navy and given commissioned status, USS Recruit (TDE-1/TFFG-1) was constructed aboard Naval Training Center San Diego...
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Snapshots from the battle, 105 Years Ago
The naval Battle of Santiago/Combate en Santiago de Cuba, on 3 July 1898, pitting the five battleships, two armored cruisers, and two armed yachts of Commodore Winfield Scott Schley and RADM William...
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