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Would-be Nautilus
Some 105 years ago this week: USS H-2 (Submarine No. 29) partially submerged in the Hudson River, while on recruiting duty at New York City, on 6 October 1919, with the Manhattan skyline in the...
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NOAA to Retire Orions, Acquire C-130J Super Herks for Hurricane Hunting
Last week, NOAA announced that they had awarded a contract to Lockheed Martin Aeronautics, based in Georgia, for two specialized C-130J Hercules to become the next generation of hurricane hunter...
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First LPD 17 Flight II Hits the Water
The future USS Harrisburg (LPD 30) was launched at Ingalls in Pascagoula on 4 October. This is important as, besides being the 14th of her class, she is the first San Antonio (LPD-17) Flight II class...
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Flying Boat for the Win
Late last month, the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force’s 31st Air Group, 71st Air Squadron, at Iwakuni Air Base conducted an emergency airlift of an injured individual from a Chinese oceanographic...
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Warship Wednesday Oct. 16, 2024: Skill and Perseverance
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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Six Pack of Tin Cans
San Diego, California. 22 October 1930. Officers and crew of six Wickes class “flush decker” four-piper destroyers: USS Rathburne (DD-113); USS Talbot (DD-114), USS Dent (DD-116), USS Waters (DD-115),...
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Make that 2-4-9
Continental Navy sloop-of-war Fly (8 guns) along with Continental Navy sloop-of-war Mosquito (4 guns). Both ships were mentioned as being on station in Delaware Bay with Fly watching six British ships...
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Zap!
Official caption: “Sailors shoot a Mark 38 25mm machine gun during a live-fire exercise on the fantail of the aircraft carrier USS Nimitz (CVN 68) in the Pacific Ocean, Oct. 14, 2024. Nimitz is...
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Foxtrot Zulu Milkshake
The old ways: 040303-N-6842R-025 Key West, Fla. (Mar. 3, 2004) Ð Lt. Allen Karlson, a student pilot assigned to the ÒTigersÓ of Training Squadron Nine (VT-9), with instructor Cdr. Joe Kerstiens...
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Looking for a Better Deal on a CMP Navy MK2 7.62 NATO Garand?
Back in June, we let you know that the CMP was beginning to sell off a supply of surplus U.S. Navy circa 1960s MK2 7.62 NATO Garand conversions-– of which AMF upgraded 17,050 rifles and H&R...
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Crosshairs
80 years ago today. Leyte Operation, October 1944. The day of the first noted use of kamikaze. Official Wartime caption: “The Australian heavy cruisers HMAS Shropshire (left) and Australia (right),...
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A Forest of Doomed Lattice
105 years ago today. Philadelphia Navy Yard, Pennsylvania. 22 October 1919. Obsolete “pre-dreadnought” type battleships in the Reserve Basin almost a year after the conclusion of the Great War,...
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Goodbye, MK 75: A 50 Year Love-Hate Story
A vintage deck gun system that was once a staple of the U.S. Navy and Coast Guard has quietly fired its final shots. Designed by the famed munitions firm of OTO Melara of La Spezia, Italy, and...
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The Final Battlewagon Scrap, 80 Years on
USS Mississippi (BB-41) bombarding Luzon, during the Lingayen operation, on 8 January 1945. She is followed by USS West Virginia (BB-48) and HMAS Shropshire. Photographed from USS New Mexico (BB-40)....
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Bull, Underway
40 years ago this month, we see the beautiful clean lines of the Leahy class guided missile cruiser USS Reeves (CG-24) underway on 15 October 1984, likely somewhere in the Western Pacific as she was...
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Three Sisters
How about this striking night shot of a recent transfer of fuel (RAS) from the Norwegian tanker and SNMG1 flagship HMoMS Maud (A530) to the British Type 23 frigate HMS Portland (F79) from the group of...
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Have (or know) of an old Navy plaque?
Signal boost for CAPT Greg Thomas (Ret) who is placing plaques in the Doherty HS Navy JROTC’s “Hall of Honor.” They have currently saved 90 unwanted plaques, many bought by Thomas off eBay. They have...
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Warship Wednesday, Oct. 30, 2024: Floating Powerhouse
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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Cue up Fortunate Son
I need to forget where my Amex is as I saw this over at Apex: Yup, 7.62 NATO M60D parts kits complete with spade grips for helicopter/pintel use. Of course, they are pushing $5K, but still, this would...
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Dress Up Time: SC-449 Kamikaze Bait
Happy Halloween. This seems like a great time to mention when a 110-foot subchaser dressed up like a 495-foot Bogue-class escort carrier some 80 years ago. Yup, we are talking about Operation Swiss...
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