Navy Husky on Ice
Official caption: Field technicians with the Arctic Submarine Laboratory prepare to remove ice from the Los Angeles-class attack submarine USS Hampton (SSN-767) at Ice Camp Whale on the Beaufort Sea,...
View ArticleStoris to Return, Zumwalt Floats, Arkansas Launches
U.S. Coast Guard icebreaker Storis during the run for a short-cut Northwest Passage prepares to send helicopters aloft on ice reconnaissance before proceeding eastward through Amundsen Gulf to Dolphin...
View ArticleWarship Wednesday Dec. 11, 2024: Cathedral Slugger
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 ArticleUnaymit!
80 years ago this month. December 1944. “Unaymit” (White 15), a behemoth Martin PBM-3D Mariner flying boat of the “White Lightnings” of Patrol Bombing Squadron (VPB) 17 refueling on a flat sea around...
View ArticleWard’s Pearl Harbor Gun May Get New Home
USS WARD NH-50261 Mare Island 1918 At 0637 on 7 December 1941, the Wickes-class flush-decker, USS Ward (Destroyer No. 139), was detailed to Pearl Harbor’s Inshore Patrol Command and was on picket duty...
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