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So Long, Bob
A big part of my life as a kid was watching Bob Newhart and, looking back, developing my own, slightly deadpan, sense of humor largely from those hours of steady Bob-isms. Drafted into the Army during...
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Grocery Run
How about these great images from Commander, Submarine Group 9, showing a commercial contract H225LP Super Puma Mk II assigned to the Lewis and Clark-class dry cargo ship USNS Cesar Chavez (T-AKE 14)...
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Green Side Blue Dives
Always nice to see the “Marines back in Submarines” so to speak. Check out these recent images of Force Reconnaissance Marines from the 2nd Recon Battalion conducting dive operations near the...
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Warship Wednesday (on a Thursday) Aug. 15, 2024: One Tired Hound
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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Hawke, Found
The 7,700-ton Edgar-class protected cruiser HMS Hawke. Commissioned on 16 May 1893, Hawke was the only member of her 9-ship class to be lost in the Great War. IWM Q 39034 Lost in Waters Deep in...
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Warship Wednesday (on a Thursday) Aug. 22, 2024: Ghosts of Gagil Tomil
Here at LSOZI, we take off every Wednesday to 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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Building 39 Down Under, Seeming Very Familiar
A recurring theme of WWII U.S. submarine war patrols, as witnessed in yesterday’s Warship Wednesday on the USS Burrfish, was the typical cycle of going out on a 50-to-70-day deployment and then...
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Persistent UAV Maritime Snoopers Getting to be a Real Thing
One of the sleeper stories from RIMPAC is that General Atomic’s MQ-9B SeaGuardian spent some 100 hours poking around the exercises and demonstrated Long Range Anti-Ship Missile (LRASM) targeting and a...
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Warship Wednesday, 11 September 2024: You Have to Go Out…
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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Welcome, Devils of the Deep
The third naval vessel named for the Garden State, USS New Jersey (SSN 796), was commissioned Saturday at Naval Weapons Station Earle in Middletown Township, New Jersey. “New Jersey is the fifth Block...
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Warship Wednesday Sept. 18, 2024: Passing the Cup Around
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. 2, 2024: Slow Going
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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The Java Frog
Here we see the Free Dutch Navy’s onderzeeboot Hr.Ms O 19 (N 54) as she enters Dundee, Scotland during WWII, circa October 1943 to June 1944. Note the oversized frog emblem on her conning tower,...
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Would-be Nautilus
Some 105 years ago this week: USS H-2 (Submarine No. 29) partially submerged in the Hudson River, while on recruiting duty at New York City, on 6 October 1919, with the Manhattan skyline in the...
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HM Submarine Trooper, Found
HMS Trooper, circa 1943 The RN T-class submarine HMS Trooper (N91), under the command of Lt. John Somerton Wraith, DSO, DSC, RN, disappeared in the Aegean Sea with all 64 hands aboard around 6-9...
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Remembering Exmouth
The E-class Flotilla Leader HMS Exmouth (H02) was the fourth RN ship to carry the name back to 1854. HMS Exmouth in Belfast in 1937 (IWM HU 110300) Constructed in Portsmouth in 1935 at a cost of over...
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Warship Wednesday Oct. 23, 2024: A Tough Little Wolf
Here at LSOZI, we take off every Wednesday to 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. 30, 2024: Floating Powerhouse
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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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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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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