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Big Harry Finally Saved?
220606-N-AO868-1167 ADRIATIC SEA (June 6, 2022) The Nimitz class aircraft carrier USS Harry S. Truman (CVN 75) transits the Adriatic Sea on June 6, 2022. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication...
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Service Guarantees Citizenship!
Some 100 years ago today, “18.5-year-old” student Robert Anson Heinlein of Kansas City signed up for a three-year stint in the Missouri National Guard, taken on to the rolls of the 110th Engineers. He...
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Battleship Landing Party Bill, circa 1950s
Ensign Schuyler F. Heim and other members of the landing party from the South Carolina-class battleship USS Michigan (BB-27) preparing to disembark, on 22 April 1914, at Vera Cruz. Their whites are...
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Warship Wednesday, Feb. 7, 2024: Moscow on the Hudson
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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A Story Told in 10,000 Hot Dogs
The aging (laid down 7 April 1987) Ticonderoga-class guided-missile cruiser USS Normandy (CG 60), sailing 61,000 nautical miles while serving as the air defense commander for the Gerald R. Ford...
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I SPY with my little eye…
The future USS Richard M. McCool Jr. (LPD 29) recently successfully completed builder’s sea trials in the Gulf of Mexico. Not your typical San Antonio-class gator, LPD 29 is equipped with the first...
View ArticleNavy Getting to Finally Do…Navy Things
Word is, with the surface fleet pulling a budget version of the convoy battles of the North Atlantic in the Red Sea over the past few months, with Houthi/Iranian drones, small boats, and cruise...
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FFG7 Musuem Ship?
Circa 1976: Oliver Hazard Perry-class guided-missile frigate FFG 7 trials via Bath The OHPs were probably one of the most un-celebrated Cold War veterans, with 51 hulls being literally everywhere from...
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Demon in the snow
Just passing on a great image from “The Fearless Fighting I,” museum ship USS Intrepid (CV-11) which had a snow day this week as NYC got socked by its first significant accumulation in more than two...
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Bell of only American Tin Can Lost in Great War Recovered
The Tucker-class destroyer USS Jacob Jones (DD-61) was laid down by the New York Shipbuilding Corporation in Camden, New Jersey, on 3 August 1914– the same day the Kaiser’s Germany declared war on...
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16th Independence-variant LCS to join the Pacific fleet Soon
The future USS Kingsville (LCS 36) returning to Mobile on 31 January from her sea trials (Austal) Austal just recently announced that the future USS Kingsville (LCS 36) has returned pier side after...
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Golden Grizzly on Mt. Fuji
Check out this magnificent image of the 11.500-ton cruiser USS California (CGN-36) late in her career, with Japan’s Fujisan in the background. Commissioned 50 years ago today on 16 February 1974,...
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Miami in Trinidad
80 years ago today: The Cleveland-class light cruiser USS Miami (CL 89) at Trinidad during her shakedown, 19 February 1944, photographed from heavy cruiser USS Quincy (CA-71). Note her crew at...
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Welcome aboard, John L. Canley
Marines and Sailors at Naval Base Coronado participated in commissioning ceremonies for the giant new 100,000-ton ton expeditionary mobile base USS John L. Canley (ESB 6), on Feb 17. This is the first...
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Warship Wednesday, Feb. 21, 2024: One Unlucky Beauty
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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Mine Units Earn MCU
ARABIAN GULF. A formation of Avenger-class mine countermeasure ships USS Devastator (MCM 6), USS Gladiator (MCM 11), USS Sentry (MCM 3), and USS Dextrous (MCM 13) maneuver in the Arabian Gulf, July 6,...
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Double Seven
80 Years Ago this month: 77th Naval Construction Battalion insignia on the cowling F4U Corsair at Bougainville, February 1944. Note the M1911 in the shoulder holster of the aviator to the right in...
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The Orange Crush Rides again
HII announced this week that its Newport News Shipbuilding division recently began topside testing of the electromagnetic aircraft launch system catapult on the future Ford-class supercarrier USS John...
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More background surfaces on 11 January Dhow incident
There is much more color that has been added to the tragic 11 January boarding, search, and seizure of the stateless dhow of the Somali coast, reportedly packed with Iranian rocket and missile...
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Submarine News
A starboard bow view of the nuclear-powered attack submarine USS Boise (SSN-764) underway at high speed off the Virginia Capes during builders sea trials, 7/12/1992. Chris Oxley (OPA-NARA...
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