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KMS Karlsruhe found
The German Königsberg-class light cruisers were some of the first “modern” ships of the Weimar-era Reichsmarine. These Versailles-compliant 7,000-ton warships replaced downright ancient Gazelle-class...
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Grenadier found
USS Grenadier (SS-210) Off Portsmouth, New Hampshire, 27 December 1941. Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the collections of the Naval History and Heritage Command. Catalog #: NH 99403 Commissioned 1...
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Spelunking, occupation edition
75 years ago today. Official caption: “Japanese Kairyu Type Midget submarine outside its cave hideaway in a Japanese coastal hillside, 22 September 1945.” The men alongside it are from the...
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Warship Wednesday, Sept. 23, 2020: Of Stars and Moonstone
Here at LSOZI, we take off every Wednesday for a look at the old steam/diesel navies of the 1833-1946 time period and will profile a different ship each week. These ships have a life, a tale all their...
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Coast Guard picks up even more FRCs, go Glock
If you have followed me here for even a minute, you know that I am a fan of the Coast Guard’s 154-foot Sentinel-class Fast Response Cutter program. Sept 24, 2020: Coast Guard Fast Response Cutter...
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Warship Wednesday, Oct. 7, 2020: U-Boat Hat Trick
Here at LSOZI, we take off every Wednesday for a look at the old steam/diesel navies of the 1833-1946 time period and will profile a different ship each week. These ships have a life, a tale all their...
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Warship Wednesday, Oct. 14, 2020: The Empire Strikes Back
Here at LSOZI, we take off every Wednesday for a look at the old steam/diesel navies of the 1833-1946 time period and will profile a different ship each week. These ships have a life, a tale all their...
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Fish don’t vote
Bushnell American Turtle submarine, 1777 (LOC LC-USZ62-110384) American submarines, from the very start, were named after aquatic/marine animals. For instance, David Bushnell’s Turtle of Revolutionary...
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Have you seen what they are doing with Reapers lately?
No, not the guys in black shrouds that go around picking up souls, I’m talking about the very real drone series from General Atomics. Introduced in 2007 as a sort of super-sized version of the...
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Sneaky, Sneaky
Here at LSOZI, we have talked about several of the Italian and German midget subs of WWII, including a whole Warship Wednesday dedicated to the spooky little craft that sank the HMS/ORP Dragon off...
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The ‘last U-boat’ takes her final dive, 73 years ago today
Here we see a rather dramatic explosion as USS Greenfish (SS-351)‘s torpedo sinks U-234 off Cape Cod, Mass, 20 November 1947. Greenfish was a Balao-class fleet sub commissioned 7 June 1946, too late...
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Warship Wednesday, Dec. 2, 2020: Pickin up a Submarine 6-Pack
Here at LSOZI, we take off every Wednesday for a look at the old steam/diesel navies of the 1833-1946 time period and will profile a different ship each week. These ships have a life, a tale all their...
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Somebody lose a sub? Or twice sunk, twice found!
Word from Maryland is that a dive team from Atlantic Wreck Salvage spotted something interesting on their side-scan sonar off the coast of Ocean City. On further research, it appears they have located...
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Welcome back, HMS Anson
After a 63-year break, the Royal Navy is set to have another HMS Anson on the list as S-123, the fifth Astute-class submarine, currently under construction, was announced last week. She will be the...
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Warship Wednesday, Dec. 23, 2020: All I Want for Christmas is a New SSK
Here at LSOZI, we take off every Wednesday for a look at the old steam/diesel navies of the 1833-1946 time period and will profile a different ship each week. These ships have a life, a tale all their...
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Repel Boarders!
Happy New Year and man your scissors, gentlemen. Detail of “A possible future of Naval Warfare,” by noted artist Will Crawford, published in Puck, Oct. 27, 1909: My favorite part is the Tar in the...
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We heard you liked Enigmas…
Archäologisches Landesamt Schleswig-Holstein, the archives of Germany’s most northern state, this week announced that a further six German Enigma machines have been discovered and retrieved from the...
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Warship Wednesday, Jan.27, 2021: Of Kamikazes, Space Monkeys, and Exocets
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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Sub-Marine ops, Back In style
The Marines have been rubber boating around, a skill they are used to as each Battalion Landing Team for years has typically included a designated “Boat Company,” trained to run about on 15-foot...
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The Titanic and Lusitania of the Baltic
From the Royal Navy: While on operations in the Baltic, HMS Echo mapped two shipwrecks from the Second World War. Using her specialized multibeam echo sounder, the ship was able to show the...
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