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Warship Wednesday, Jan. 4, 2023: Diving the New World
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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Mush v the Harusame
80 years ago today: The Shiratsuyu-class destroyer Harusame of the Imperial Japanese Navy was torpedoed by the famed Gato-class submarine USS Wahoo (SS-238) under the command of LCDR Dudley Walker...
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Warship Wednesday, Feb. 8, 2023: The Only ‘T’ in the P-class
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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Submarine updates: USS Albacore found, SSN-23 Turns 18, U-17 Finds a Home
Lots of submarine news broke over the weekend, and all of it deserving of a pause to cover. USS Albacore found One of the most successful American subs of WWII, the Gato-class fleet boat USS Albacore...
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The last Amerikansky Golland
A century ago today, the last American submarine operated by the Russians was put into service. The 78 assorted Type H (Holland 602) submarines made by Electric Boat in Connecticut, Fore River in...
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Warship Wednesday, March 1, 2023: Six in One Trip!
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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Dragging out that Navy Naming Conventions Soapbox
It’s like the Navy’s naming conventions are done with the Magic 8-ball or Ouija board over the past few years. Or perhaps are just hyper-political and just flat-out done for optics. Maybe it’s a blend...
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Key West Decommissioning, and (Commissioning)
Capping an impressive 36-year career, the third U.S. Navy ship (the first being a Civil War gunboat while the second was a WWII-era frigate) to be named after Key West, Florida is headed for imminent...
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Warship Wednesday, March 8, 2023: USS FBI
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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Gunboat Subs
Official description: Six U.S. Navy submarines maneuvering in line abreast formation during exercises off Block Island, Rhode Island, in April 1947. The nearest submarine is USS Sarda (SS-488) while...
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Warship Wednesday, April 5, 2023: Jackie’s Toys
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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Magnolia State Subs
While most people are aware that there is a current submarine on the Navy List that has a Mississippi connection– the Virginia-class hunter-killer USS Mississippi (SSN-782) which was commissioned at...
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The day the Kaiser Sank the Entire Liberian Fleet
Some 105 years ago today, a German submarine, SM U-154, under the command of Kplt. Hermann Gercke, appeared off the Liberian capital of Monrovia and bombarded the city then sank the West African...
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Thresher at 60
Laid down only four short years after the world’s first nuclear-powered submarine, USS Nautilus (SSN-571) took to the sea, USS Thresher (SSN-593) was the lead ship of her 14-unit class. USS Thresher....
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Simon Lake’s Defender found?
Simon Lake, the famed mechanical engineer and naval architect, who held hundreds of patents relating to submarine vessels, engines, and other concepts, built his first operational submersible in 1894...
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Montevideo Maru, found
Class leader USS Salmon (SS-182) running speed trials in early 1938. Note the S1 designator. NH 69872 As covered in past Warship Wednesdays, the hard-charging Salmon-class fleet submarine USS Sturgeon...
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Wicked Monstah Boat
The 25th Virginia-class hunter-killer, USS Massachusetts (SSN 798), was christened at Newport News over the weekend, with a tentative commissioning date of May 2024 in Boston. She will be the fifth...
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Remembering Scorpion
Still on patrol, USS Scorpion (SSN 589) There are no roses on a sailor’s grave, no lilies on an ocean wave, the only tribute is the seagull’s sweeps, and the tears that a sweetheart weeps.
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Vermont, heading out
How about these epic shots via General Dynamics Electric Boat of the Block IV Virginia-class hunter killer USS Vermont (SSN-792) heading out from the Groton shipyard on sea trials on 6 May following...
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New Contracts: SSN 812 and SSN 813, T-AO 213, Next Gen Sub Tech
These three interesting mentions from DOD in the past week include the next two Virginia-class hunter killers (SSN 812 & 813)– which will be Block V subs if not improved Block VI boats, which will...
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