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July 4th, 1943: Just a Day on the Beach
80 years ago today. New Georgia Operation, 1943. (Codename: Operation Toenails). “Marines unloading LCIs on a Rendova Island beach, July 4, 1943. They are unloading in a hurry after a bomb struck...
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Warship Wednesday, June 28, 2023: A 22,000-Yard Fish and a One-Man Army
Here at LSOZI, we take off every 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, which...
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Incident #3658
80 Years ago today: Attack on the Type VIIC German submarine, U-134 (Kptlt. Hans-Günther Brosin), by a PBM Mariner of the “Flying Tigers” of VP-201, lat 27-04W, Long 59-48W, the pilot was LT John T....
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Husky at 80
“Invasion Craft—Sicily,” by U.S. Navy war artist Mitchell Jamieson. Painting, Oil on Canvas; 1943; Framed Dimensions 44H X 35W. NHHC Accession #: 88-193-GA “Grim, stark reality and the enemy lie ahead...
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First of Ford’s Subusters Hits the Water
Here we see, 105 years ago today, “Patrol Eagle (PE) Boat #1” ready to be Launched at the Ford River Rouge Plant, on the outskirts of Detroit, 11 July 1918. The vessel is seen sliding bow-first from...
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Warship Wednesday, July 12, 2023: Mr. Gallatin’s Shallow Water Angel
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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Ommaney Bay found
The Casablanca-class escort carrier USS Ommaney Bay (CVE-79) was laid down under a Maritime Commission contract as M.C. Hull 1116 on 6 October 1943 at Kaiser’s Vancouver yard, launched on 29 December...
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Old School and the New Class
80 Years Ago Today, 14 July 1943, while steaming from San Diego to Norfolk: The mighty dreadnought USS Nevada (Battleship No. 36), seen after her extensive repairs due to the pummeling she took at...
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Somewhere under a camo net in the Bay area…
80 years ago, July 1943: Riveter at work on an aircraft, possibly a PB2Y-3 Coronado patrol bomber hull, at Consolidated-Vultee (Convair) Aircraft Plant, San Diego, California. Original color photo by...
View ArticleMoving a battleship turret for the first time since 1992
The Iowa class battleships’ three dozen installed 16-inch 50 caliber Mk 7 guns, the largest, most destructive naval gun ever mounted on an American warship, have been quiet sentinels in pierside...
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Mad Fox Buzzing Moscow
A Cold War classic! Official caption: “4 March 1970. U.S. Navy anti-submarine warfare aircraft P-3A Orion, from the “Mad Foxes” of Patrol Squadron FIVE (VP-5), she flies in the vicinity of the Soviet...
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Welcome back, USS Canberra
The future USS Canberra (LCS 30), the Navy’s 16th and newest Independence-variant littoral combat ship earlier this week arrived at the Royal Australian Navy Fleet Base East in Sydney for her upcoming...
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NOLA Jayhawk ( Nee Oceanhawk)
While bopping around the Gulfport harbor as I often do last week, I saw this bad boy spinning down in the public parking lot next to USCG Station Gulfport, the one typically full of boat trailers on...
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Navy’s new SEAL Mini Sub Finally Reaches IOC
Lockheed Martin’s Dry Combat Submersible– the Navy’s long-promised minisub for SEALs News coming out of Lockheed: WEST PALM BEACH, Fla., July 24, 2023 — U.S. Special Operations Command (USSOCOM)...
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Ah, how soon they forget the Sand Pebbles
So, with the commissioning of the USS Canberra (LCS-30) in Australia, a couple of news articles subsequently flashed claiming she was the “first U.S. warship commissioned outside of the country.”...
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Warship Wednesday, July 26, 2023: The Iron Woman
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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Beware Japanese destroyer bows if you are in a plywood boat…
I’m on the road this week and don’t have time to do a proper Warship Wednesday but I would be remiss if I missed the 80th anniversary of the loss of an Elco-built 80-foot motor torpedo boat, lost when...
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Bulk Buying Burkes
No less than 6 Spruance class destroyers on the way. DD Module Erection Area 24 June 1976. Ingalls Shipbuilding, Pascagoula, Mississippi. I always thought the big bulk buys of the 1970s and 1980s,...
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‘Ole Miss’ at 45
The third of 11 planned Virginia class nuclear-powered, guided-missile cruisers was ordered from Newport News on 21 January 1972 under the Nixon administration, laid down 22 February 1975, launched as...
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Marine Dets as Oil Tanker Shipriders in Persian Gulf?
So Iran, or specifically the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Navy, keeps getting increasingly rowdy, something that is cyclical (see Operations Earnest Will and Praying Mantis in 1987-1988 besides...
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