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Give up a fish, bunk a frogman
The Royal Australian Navy has been in the submarine business since 1914 when they took a pair of British E-class boats (HMAS AE-1 and AE-2) under local operation. Since then, they operated a dozen...
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Lots of cold bubbleheads this month
Scheduled to last five weeks, ICEX 2018 has kicked off with a joint NATO effort to show readiness in the Arctic. The Navy’s Arctic Submarine Laboratory (ASL) and the Canadian Defence Forces have set...
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Dental call!
“Dental Scene” Painting, Gouache on Paper; by Julian Levi; 1943; Framed Dimensions 22H X 24. Accession #: 88-159-GQ as a Gift of Abbott Laboratories “Waiting seamen look forward to the dental chair...
View ArticleThe Russians are going Cold War deep
The Russian Red Banner Fleet is rediscovering very deep manned salvage/rescue ops via atmospheric diving suits (ADS). These things date back to the 1900s with the U.S., Germany and the Brits leading...
View ArticleThe proud seventy-three of the 39th Combat Diver Course
The Singapore Armed Forces (SAF) has a number of specialized frogmen units including combat swimmer detachments of the Special Operations Force and the Naval Diving Unit (NDU), dating back to 1971. To...
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197 days on a snorkel boat is a hell of a thing
Here we see the Canadian Navy’s Victoria-class submarine HMCS Chicoutimi (SSK 879) tied up at her home at CFB Esquimalt, B.C. after completing a 197-day deployment in Asia-Pacific. That’s a long time...
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One of the most advanced U-boats ever to take to the sea, located
Ordered in 1943 from F Schichau GmbH, Danzig as werk 1668, German submarine U-3523 was an advanced Type XXI U-boat that wasn’t completed until 23 January 1945– just over two months before Berlin fell....
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Coming home from the desert
Delivery of the remains of Sottocapo Silurista (Chief Torpedoman) Carlo Acefalo, late of the Royal Italian Navy submarine Macalle, to Italian Ambassador Fabrizio Lobasso for their repatriation to Italy...
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Breaking news, for 1945
Hot off the presses from Commander in Chief, United States Fleet (COMINCH), and COM 10th Fleet, 8 May 1945
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A little bit of Nerwin will live forever
One of the most interesting submersibles ever to not take up a slot on the U.S. Navy List was Deep Submergence Vessel NR-1, a nuclear-powered testbed for Rickover built by Electric Boat in the 1960s....
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A special Warship Wednesday: Remembering Scorpion
Whereas normally this post would be some vintage ironclad, battleship or steam sloop, today we honor the men who lost their lives 50 years ago this week when USS Scorpion (SSN-589) a Skipjack-class...
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The Terrible T off the Sunshine State, 73 years ago today
USS Tautog (SS-199), photographed from an altitude of 300 feet off the Florida coast by airship ZP-31 on 29 May 1945. Note the scoreboard painted on her conning tower. Tautog (skippers: Willingham,...
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That’s a whole lotta diesel
This great view shows 11 vessels of Submarine Squadron Five (nine submarines including a missile-slinger, a submarine rescue vessel, and a submarine tender) moored side by side for a change of command...
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Warship Wednesday, June 20, 2018: The last of the drummers
Here at LSOZI, we are going to take off every Wednesday for a look at the old steam/diesel navies of the 1859-1946 period and will profile a different ship each week. These ships have a life, a tale...
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Boeing’s 51-foot yellow submarine is back to bobbing off the West Coast
Boeing’s Echo Voyager undersea drone undergoes its first round of testing, which was completed off the California coast last year. (Boeing Co.) Boeing’s Echo Voyager, a fully autonomous extra large...
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Warship Wednesday, June 27, 2018: The unsung turbo-electric wonder boat
Here at LSOZI, we are going to take off every Wednesday for a look at the old steam/diesel navies of the 1859-1946 period and will profile a different ship each week. These ships have a life, a tale...
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Ever wondered what an LA Harpoon looks like?
Sailors load a Harpoon anti-ship cruise missile on to the Los Angeles-class fast-attack submarine USS Olympia (SSN-717) as part of the biannual RIMPAC maritime exercise. The 1970s era anti-ship missile...
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An interesting look inside UUVRON 1
Last fall the U.S. Navy established its first-ever unmanned undersea vehicle squadron, UUVRON 1, at NUWC Keyport, Washington. Unmanned Undersea Vehicle Squadron One’s mission is to develop the tactics,...
View ArticleIf you are a fan of the USS Racine, you probably shouldn’t watch this footage
Live fire from aircraft, a submarine, and land assets participating in the Rim of the Pacific (RIMPAC) exercise sank the long-decommissioned ex-USS Racine (LST-1191) on 12 July in the Pacific Ocean....
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Harpoons and Perrys off Kauai
The recent RIMPAC 2018 exercise saw two notable sinkex operations, the first, the old LST USS Racine we have covered already. The second, the decommissioned OHP-class frigate USS McClusky (FFG 41), was...
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