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HM SM P.311, reporting from patrol
The British completed 53 T-class (Triton) submarines in the 1930s and 40s and these 276-foot vessels took the war to the enemies of the crown and we have covered at least one of these boats, HMS...
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Warship Wednesday June 15, 2016: It’s you, you’re the rocket mail
Here at LSOZI, we are going to take off every Wednesday for a look at the old steam/diesel navies of the 1859-1946 time period and will profile a different ship each week. These ships have a life, a...
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Combat Gallery Sunday : The Martial Art of Geoffrey Stephen Allfree
Much as once a week I like to take time off to cover warships (Wednesdays), on Sundays (when I feel like working), I like to cover military art and the painters, illustrators, sculptors, photographers...
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Ling being stripped as she awaits her fate
Named for the magnificent lemon fish (cobia) that haunt the reefs of the Gulf of Mexico, the submarine USS Ling (SS/AGSS/IXSS-297) was one of 128 Balao-class fleet boats commissioned to bring the war...
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Combat Gallery Sunday: The Martial Art of Geoffrey Muirhead Bone, of the...
Much as once a week I like to take time off to cover warships (Wednesdays), on Sundays (when I feel like working), I like to cover military art and the painters, illustrators, sculptors, photographers...
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Warship Wednesday July 6, 2016: Of British frogmen and Japanese holy mountains
Here at LSOZI, we are going to take off every Wednesday for a look at the old steam/diesel navies of the 1859-1946 time period and will profile a different ship each week. These ships have a life, a...
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Dive! Dive! Dive!
Good morning! How about starting your day with some footage rarely seen outside of dolphin and bubblehead circles. Below we have the 1000th dive of the USS San Francisco (SSN 711) courtesy of...
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Warship Wednesday July 13, 2016: The tale of the pre-owned polar sub
Here at LSOZI, we are going to take off every Wednesday for a look at the old steam/diesel navies of the 1859-1946 time period and will profile a different ship each week. These ships have a life, a...
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RN to trim UAVs, but will at least keep the boomers
The aging HM Submarine Vanguard (S28), commissioned in 1993, is the lead ship of the RN’s four boomers. It looks like the Brits will keep their SSBN fleet for another generation with MPs voting...
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Japan’s WWII Alaskan mini-sub base
When the U.S. entered WWII, the entire garrison of tiny Kiska Island in the Aleutians consisted of a 10 man U.S. Navy radio/weather station. As a diversionary attack as part of the Battle of Midway,...
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Combat Gallery Sunday: The Forward-looking Submarine Ops of Luis Philip Senarens
Much as once a week I like to take time off to cover warships (Wednesdays), on Sundays (when I feel like working), I like to cover military art and the painters, illustrators, sculptors, photographers...
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A true relic from a forgotten battlefield
160817-N-PM781-002 WASHINGTON (Aug. 17, 2016) An M1 Garand rifle used by U.S. Marine Corps Raiders during the World War II attack on Japanese military forces on Makin Island is at Naval History and...
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Admiral Arleigh Burke’s Deep Dive Diploma
U.S.S. Robert E. Lee (SSBN 601) Pax Deterrendo Deep Dive Diploma Be it known among all ye landlubbers and topside sailors that on 15 Nov 60 I was visited in the depths of my domain by the U.S.S....
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Warship Wednesday Aug 24, 2016: 100-feet of Turkish Surprise
Here at LSOZI, we are going to take off every Wednesday for a look at the old steam/diesel navies of the 1859-1946 time period and will profile a different ship each week. These ships have a life, a...
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Rum subs of the bootlegger era
Today we have narco subs (self-propelled semi-submersibles, or SPSSs) to deal with but they are an idea that is almost a century old. The Volstead Act in 1919 came at a time of technological...
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Fear God and Dread Nought
“Every day our ballistic missile submarines are used to deter the most extreme threats to Britain’s security. We cannot know what dangers we might face in the 2030s, 2040s and 2050s, so we are building...
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All tricks, no treats: Coasties chalk up another sneaky narco sub, making 43...
The Alameda, California-based USCGC Waesche (WMSL-751), one of the new 418-foot Legend-class National Security Cutters, offloaded 39,000 pounds of cocaine Thursday at Naval Base San Diego– including a...
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Sea Hunter takes her TALON out to play
We’ve talked about DARPA’s 132-foot USV robot subchaser, the Anti-Submarine Warfare Continuous Trail Unmanned Vessel (ACTUV), dubbed Sea Hunter, a few times already this year. The ship’s projected $20...
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HMS Simoom found
Turkish wreck-hunter Selcuk Kolay has found what he believes to be the Royal Navy’s long-lost S-class submarine HMS Simoom (P225) about 6 nautical miles north-west of the Turkish Aegean island of...
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More on the Proteus mini-sub
Huntington Ingalls Industries just dropped a new video hyping their swag prototype Proteus DMUV (dual mode undersea vehicle– they really need to fix that acronym) which they hope will replace the...
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