MIT is crossing the air-water boundary, or at least working on it
If an underwater submarine passes beneath a plane in the sky, there’s been no way for them to communicate with each other without having the submarine surface (or float a buoy), jeopardizing its...
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Pascagoula periscopes
As a Pascagoula kid, I spent a lot of time looking at boats and ships growing up as they made their way through Ingalls. I remember the Spru-cans and their Ticonderoga half-sisters cranking through the...
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Combat Gallery Sunday: The Cold War artwork of Pavel Pavlinov and Andrey...
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, Oct. 10, 2018: Father goose and his guard fish
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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Japan goes Li-Ion
The Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force just launched what could be a seriously advanced non-nuclear submarine. At 4,200-tons and 275-feet in length, these are large, capable SSPs that are a bargain at...
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Peru’s u-boats, USN adjacent
140923-N-ZF498-067 ATLANTIC OCEAN (Sep. 23, 2014) Peruvian submarine BAP Islay (SS-35) pulls alongside the aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN 71). Islay participated in a maneuvering exercise...
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The 44 brave submariners aboard San Juan have been located
Just over a year after the German-made Type TR-1700 SSK ARA San Juan (S-42) went missing with 44 souls aboard, she has been found. The sad news from Ocean Infinity: Ocean Infinity, the seabed...
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The curious Soviet mini-sub of South Alabama
While running around South Alabama, I came across the sleepy shrimping capital of Bayou La Batre along the Mississippi Sound. The basis for Winston Groom’s (who grew up in Mobile County and for years...
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Warship Wednesday, Nov. 28, 2018: The spaghetti boats of Mar del Plata
Here at LSOZI, we are going to take off every Wednesday for a look at the old steam/diesel navies of the 1833-1946 time period and will profile a different ship each week. These ships have a life, a...
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Warship Wednesday, Dec. 19, 2018: Nimitz’s pogy boat
Here at LSOZI, we are going to take off every Wednesday for a look at the old steam/diesel navies of the 1833-1946 time period and will profile a different ship each week. These ships have a life, a...
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Warship Wednesday, Jan. 2, 2019: Splinter No. 330 (of 448)
Here at LSOZI, we are going to take off every Wednesday for a look at the old steam/diesel navies of the 1833-1946 time period and will profile a different ship each week. These ships have a life, a...
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The colors inside the sardine can
When we see photos of submarine interiors from the WWII-era, there is a general monochrome aspect to them due to the B&W nature and washed out “copy of a copy” life span of such imagery. Submarine...
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Warship Wednesday, Jan. 30, 2019: The ‘$2 million Fighting Monster’
Here at LSOZI, we are going to take off every Wednesday for a look at the old steam/diesel navies of the 1833-1946 time period and will profile a different ship each week. These ships have a life, a...
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Over a seaman’s grave, no flowers grow: USS Thresher to be remembered at...
USS Thresher. Starboard bow view, July 24, 1961. (Official U.S. Navy Photograph) More than a half-century after their loss, 129 brave submariners will be given a standing memorial at Arlington. USS...
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Warship Wednesday, Feb. 6, 2019: The final Four-Piper
Here at LSOZI, we are going to take off every Wednesday for a look at the old steam/diesel navies of the 1833-1946 time period and will profile a different ship each week. These ships have a life, a...
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Warspite, returning
If you are a fan of Warship Wednesday, then you undoubtedly are aware of the classic Royal Navy battleships Dreadnought, and Valiant. The former is the warship that started the entire modern...
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Submarines at play in Oz
Recently four of Australia’s six home-grown Collins-class diesel-electric submarines were spotted frolicing in the West Australian Exercise Area northwest of Rottnest Island near Cockburn Sound. The...
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Italians discover long lost cruiser Giovanni delle Bande Nere
Commissioned 1 January 1931, the Giussano-class light cruiser Giovanni delle Bande Nere (John of the Black Bands) was a sleek warship of the Regia Marina, though not quite up to the same quality as her...
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Warship Wednesday, Mar. 13, 2019: Putting the Yeoman back into the...
Here at LSOZI, we are going to take off every Wednesday for a look at the old steam/diesel navies of the 1833-1946 time period and will profile a different ship each week.take off every Wednesday for a...
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Warships in Nebraska
It’s odd to find a submarine or a minesweeper out on the Great Plains but such an example exists at Omaha, Nebraska’s Freedom Park which has long had custody over the old WWII-era (3 Battle Stars)...
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