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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...

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Burke 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...

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Radial 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...

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Welcome 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...

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Miami: 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...

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Goodbye 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...

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Warship 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...

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Mighty 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...

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Welcome, 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...

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Shallow 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...

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It 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...

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Welcome, 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...

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Leonardo 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...

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Radial 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...

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Antietam, 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...

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Make 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...

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Thomas-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...

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‘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”...

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Warship 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,...

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Patrol 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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