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Elderly Burkes Get Reprieve
200304-N-NK931-1001 PHILIPPINE SEA (Mar. 4, 2020) Landing Signalmen Enlisted (LSE), assigned to the Arleigh-Burke class guided-missile destroyer USS Barry (DDG 52), directs night flight operations of...
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Navy to Wring out another Decade from 3 Ticos
Following a decision to pencil whip the service lives of 12 early Flight I Arleigh Burke-class (DDG 51) destroyers, pushing each beyond its 35-year expected service life to gain another 48 “ship...
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Just days short of 60 Years in the SSBN Program…
Norfolk Naval Shipyard on Wednesday announced they have successfully completed the inactivation of the Moored Training Ship Sam Rayburn (MTS 635), an evolution that included prepping the boat for...
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Beat the Rush!
Summer of 1910, Cordova, Alaska: An armed naval landing party dispatched from the U.S. Revenue Service Cutter Rush— which is seen in her gleaming white and buff livery tied up to the pier behind the...
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Golden Hull Numbers
The inshore construction tender USCGC Smilax (WLIC 315) celebrated her 80th anniversary during a ceremony attended by current and former crewmembers in Atlantic Beach, North Carolina this week. USCGC...
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Island Hopping
80 years ago this week. 9 November 1944. Official wartime caption: “Jet-Propelled Take-off for Mariner, South Pacific – As the massive, bi-motored Martin mariner rises into the air, streams of smoke...
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Remember to thank your Veterans and wear your poppies today
No further posts today. Official wartime caption: “Pvt. James L. Poust, Hughesville, Pa., displays a mud-covered face after having carried wounded men over mired and muddy roads of eastern France, 13...
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Navy Revisiting Heritage and Tradition this week
Two ship commissionings in the news show some decent salutes to those who have sailed into history in days prior. In New York on Saturday– one day shy of the USMC’s 249th birthday– the Navy...
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Warship Wednesday Nov. 13, 2024: One Busy Bug
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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Boxer Walkaround
With a big boxing match in the news today, how about the biggest Boxer we care about here on the blog, recently seen at play in the historically significant Tsushima Strait. We’re talking about the...
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What a Difference 100 Years Makes
A century ago. Official period caption: “U.S. Aeroplane Carrier Langley in Gaillard Cut, Panama Canal, Nov 16, 1924.” National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) photo. NARA Identifier:...
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Iowa class Battle Carrier Plans Found
The idea of hermaphrodite flattop-equipped hybrid carrier battleships was revisited often over the years. In the Great War, the British converted the battlecruiser HMS Furious to have a 160-foot...
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Warship Wednesday (on a Thursday) Nov. 21, 2024: The Sweet Pea
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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Midway Magic Down Under
Throwback some 35 years to November 1989 when the “Fleet’s Finest Carrier,” USS Midway (CV 41) pulled alongside F Berth, Victoria Quay, Freemantle, on a historic visit as the first U.S. Navy carrier...
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First Forward-Deployed Virginia-Class SSN Arrives in Guam
The Virginia-class fast-attack submarine USS Minnesota (SSN 783) arrived at her new homeport of Naval Base Guam, on 26 November as part of the U.S. Navy’s “strategic laydown plan for naval forces in...
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Hoosier Houseboat
80 years ago this week, a fantastic series of photos of the late South Dakota-class battleship USS Indiana (BB 58) conducting a high-speed turn in Puget Sound, November 30, 1944. BuShips photos via...
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Efforts to Save an FFG Sunk
6 January 2013. Period caption: “Guided-missile frigate USS Halyburton (FFG 40) transits the Gulf of Aden. Halyburton is deployed with Commander, Task Group 508, promoting maritime security operations...
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Murderers’ Row
80 years ago today, 2 December 1944, in an ode to the ’27 Yankees. Third Fleet fast carriers anchored in Ulithi Atoll, Carolines, in a brief lull before the start of the Mindoro landings in the...
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Kangaroo in the Pouch
How about this great shot some 80 years ago this week showing the stern of the destroyer USS Claxton (DD-571), at left, a bow-on view of the heavy cruiser USS Canberra (CA-70), center, and another tin...
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The Brown Water Navy’s 81mm Mortar Mark 2
In a recent Warship Wednesday (Coast Guard Ron Three) we touched on the use of the 81mm mortar in two fixed emplacements behind the main 5-inch gun mount on a series of USCG cutters that deployed to...
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