First of the Dash Cans
Official caption, 65 years ago this month: “U.S. Navy s First Helicopter Destroyer Conducts Exercises. USS Hazelwood is the Navy’s first anti-submarine helicopter destroyer, steams off the Atlantic...
View ArticleBurke Updates
A few interesting pieces of news when it comes to everyone’s favorite current class of destroyers. When it comes to contracts, two recent DoD announcements highlight the very real difference in cost...
View ArticleRadial Engine Glory
How about this great shot of two aircraft rarely seen operating side-by-side on a flattop, showing Navy and Marine F4U-4 Corsairs of VF-43 (F-3xx) and VMF-211 (AF-144) spinning up behind a big Douglas...
View ArticleWelcome back, Pickering
The U.S. Revenue Cutter Pickering–– named for Washington’s wartime Quartermaster General and later Secretary of War– has one of the most stirring sea tales seldom told. The 77-foot Jackass Brig, built...
View ArticleMiami: Off the Beach
How about this great action shot, 80 years ago today. A smoke ring is left by 6″/47 (15.2 cm) Mark 16 Turret #1 as the brand new Cleveland class light cruiser USS Miami (CL-89) pounds the Palau...
View ArticleGoodbye Foamed Hangers
One of the big hangars (No. 2) at the USCG Aviation Training Center in Mobile recently accidentally discharged its AFFF FSS (foam-o-matic) and filled the building with 400 gallons of suds. It...
View ArticleWarship Wednesday, 11 September 2024: You Have to Go Out…
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...
View ArticleMighty Moo, Departing
She still looks beautiful, even after 33 years of hard riding. Naval Base San Diego (Aug. 27, 2024) – Retired Vice Adm. Edward Moore delivers remarks at the decommissioning ceremony for the...
View ArticleWelcome, Devils of the Deep
The third naval vessel named for the Garden State, USS New Jersey (SSN 796), was commissioned Saturday at Naval Weapons Station Earle in Middletown Township, New Jersey. “New Jersey is the fifth Block...
View ArticleShallow Action
80 years ago this week, the brand new Fletcher-class tin can USS Robinson (DD-562), a destroyer of Admiral Halsey’s Third Fleet slips along the beach at Peleliu in the Palau group on Operation...
View ArticleIt flies, don’t it?
80 years ago today. A Marine Corps Convair OY-1 Sentinel (Grasshopper) observation plane, 19 September 1944, being manhandled on the flight deck of the Casablanca-class escort carrier USS Petrof Bay...
View ArticleWelcome, Lucy Stone
The Navy over the weekend christened the John Lewis-class oiler USNS Lucy Stone (T-AO 209), the fifth ship in the new fleet oiler program for the U.S. Navy. She is an impressive replenishment ship of...
View ArticleLeonardo delivers 100th TH-73A thrasher to Navy
A big change in the fleet of helicopters running from Whiting Field up and down the Gulf Coast. The new TH-73A Thrasher– a modified Augusta AW119Kx Koala– in flight with a legacy Bell 206/TH-57C Sea...
View ArticleRadial Engine Glory
How about this great shot of two aircraft rarely seen operating side-by-side on a flattop, showing Navy and Marine F4U-4 Corsairs of VF-43 (F-3xx) and VMF-211 (AF-144) spinning up behind a big Douglas...
View ArticleAntietam, departing
USS Antietam (CG-54) earlier this week conducted a “dead-stick” berthing shift from the Penalty Box to Pier M-1 of Joint Base Pearl Harbor Hickam. This is the pier where her Decommissioning Ceremony...
View ArticleMake that, Mr. Charles
Some folks like to throw rocks at the F-35 Charlie, the carrier variant of the Lightning II fighter aircraft. However, these recent images of a ‘Salty Dogs” VX-23 F-35C carrying twin 200+nm range...
View ArticleThomas-Morse Hydroplane
30 September 1918. Original Caption: “Front view Thomas-Morse type SH-4 Naval Training Hydroplane furnished the United States Navy during 1916-1917. Fitted with Curtiss OX-5, 100 H.P. aeromotor; wing...
View Article‘America’s Battle Cruiser’ strikes her flag
The ninth Ticonderoga-class guided-missile cruiser, the Ingalls-built USS Leyte Gulf (CG 55), was disestablished as a command on 21 September 2024, 37 years and 1 day since “America’s Battle Cruiser”...
View ArticleWarship Wednesday Oct. 2, 2024: Slow Going
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,...
View ArticlePatrol Boat No. 102, is that you?
While the scuttling of the Vichy French fleet at Toulon in 1942, and the self-destruction of the Royal Danish Navy at its docks in Copenhagen in 1943 to keep them out of German hands are...
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