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And the Navy List Keeps Shrinking by the minute…
As covered in past posts, the Ticonderoga class guided-missile cruisers are not long for us, with Cold Warriors USS Lake Champlain (CG-57) and USS Mobile Bay (CG-53) already decommissioned in the past...
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Warship Wednesday, Sept. 27, 2023: Of Shorts & Hard Charging Jeep Carriers
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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DASH, is that you?
BAE Systems this week showed off something they termed akin to a game changer regarding armed drones in naval use. Their Malloy T-600 (which ironically is the same designation as a Terminator model )...
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Warship Wednesday, Oct. 4, 2023: Shipping Green
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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Warship Wednesday, Oct. 11, 2023: Sink Em All
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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Rolf’s Curious Shark
Here we see the bow of the rare Type UE II ocean minelayer submarine, SM U-124, sometime in late 1918 after her surrender, likely in Harwich, England. Just below her net cutter is a shell hole (“sheel...
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Warship Wednesday, Oct. 18, 2023: The Duel of the Deputado and the Knight
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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Portugal’s sub force getting it done
The modern Tridente-class submarine, a unique fuel cell AIP variant of the German Type 209PN/Type 214PN, has been in operation since 2010 with the Portuguese Navy. While three were envisioned, just...
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Wetterstation Kurt
80 years ago today, the only (known) World War II military installation conducted by Germany in North America was erected. On 22 October 1943, the Type IXC/40 submarine U-537 (Kptlt. Peter Schrewe) of...
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Echoes from 1940
The MAREANO project, conducted by the Institute of Marine Research (IMR), the Geological Survey of Norway (NGU), and the Norwegian Mapping Authority, has been mapping the seascape of the Norwegian...
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Warship Wednesday, Nov. 8, 2023: Wrong Place at the Wrong Time
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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Warship Wednesday (on a Thursday) Nov. 16, 2023: The Darkest Twist
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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Counterdrone Backpacks for Subforce
An interesting post from Groton-based Submarine Squadron (COMSUBRON12) Twelve last week shows submariners undergoing counter-UAS training on board Submarine Base New London. The pictures show the...
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Warship Wednesday, Dec. 6, 2023: One Hearty Brazilian
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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Back to Alto su barco!
The crew of the Coast Guard Cutter Waesche (WMSL 751) offloaded a little over 9 tons of Colombia’s finest, worth something like $239 million, on Wednesday in San Diego after the conclusion of her...
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Scorpion vs Trawler
In news out of Chile, the country’s very professional (if somewhat outdated) navy has been keeping tabs on a foreign fishing fleet of 8 large trawlers crossing through the Juan Fernández Archipelago...
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Freemantle, ahoy!
In the late 1930s and early 1940s, the idea to keep the Japanese Combined Fleet fenced in its home waters was through investing a lot in submarines. Admiral Hart’s Asiatic Squadron, based in the...
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Just taking my drone boat for a walk
Just walking around the Gulfport harbor on the weekend– back when it was 70 degrees just a week ago– and spied this, now increasingly familiar, scene: an Ocean Aero Triton Autonomous Underwater and...
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Freemantle days with the BPF
As part of AUKUS, the Royal Navy is set to forward-deploy one of its precious seven nuclear attack submarines (SSN) to Freemantle from around 2027. Of course, this has all happened before. Here we see...
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Warship Wednesday, Jan. 31, 2024: One Hard Working Little Boat
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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