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Warship Wednesday, Mar. 27, 2019: Tehran’s Tangs
Here at LSOZI, we are going to take off every Wednesday for a look at the old steam/diesel navies of the 1833-1946 (ish) time period and will profile a different ship each week. These ships have a...
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Warship Wednesday, April 17, 2018: Canadian Snorkel Power
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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To reef, or not to reef
The submarine USS Clamagore (SS-343), a Balao-class 311-foot “fleet boat” of the type that crushed the Japanese merchant fleet during WWII, commissioned on 28 June 1945– just narrowly too late for the...
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Found: 1 Trained Marine Mammal, Possibly of Russian Extraction
Fishermen in Norway had an interesting encounter with a white beluga whale last week near the fishing village of Inga. “We were going to put out nets when we saw a whale swimming between the boats,”...
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The Stoof delivered
People forget that the kinda dopey-looking Grumman S-2 Tracker ASW aircraft, known by the VS-squadron members that operated them as “Stoofs,” could carry a staggering amount of ordinance. They could...
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Warship Wednesday, May 22, 2019: The Defiant Bicyclist
Here at LSOZI, we are going to take off 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 tale all...
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Welcome back, Torpedomen!
Commander, Submarine Forces sent this out yesterday: You spoke up and we’ve heard you, Submarine Forces! Chief of Naval Operations Adm. John Richardson has approved re-naming the Machinist’s Mate...
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Columbia headed to realty, in just 12 short years
Huntington Ingalls showed off footage of cutting the first steel plate of the new Columbia-class (SSBN 826) ballistic missile submarine at Newport News Shipbuilding in Virginia last week. The 12...
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Warship Wednesday, June 26, 2019: The sub-smoking Greenfish of the Amazon
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 Admiralty must love their Brazilian allies right about now
The Royal Navy and Marinha do Brasil have extensive ties going back to the 19th Century. It should be remembered that the battle of Jutland had a Brazilain battleship sailing for the British. HMS...
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Just hailing a ride on a Narco Sub
In the bonkers short video below, you see a U.S. Coast Guard Deployable Specialized Forces TACLET guy deployed on the U.S. Coast Guard Legends-class National Security Cutter Munro (WMSL 755) going for...
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A curious mini-sub in the news again
So in the past week, this bad boy caused a stir in California’s Monterey Bay: Via KSBW Some were concerned it was a narco-sub or possibly a spy boat or something, as there aren’t a lot of privately...
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A 1.2 million mile Sapphire
The French Marine Nationale has long been a fan of naming submarines after gemstones. One of these, Saphir, has been exceptionally popular. The first French sous-marin Saphir was an Émeraude-class...
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West Pac metal pirates strike again
The illegal scrappers of the Malaccan Straits and Sea of Java, in the search for cheap “low background steel,” have notoriously broken many of the venerated shipwrecks of the 1942 naval clashes of the...
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The French Daphné-class SSK Minerve (S647) was still a relatively brand new boat when she was lost off Toulon in 1968, having been commissioned less than four years previously. She took 52 submariners...
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Warship Wednesday, Sep 11, 2019: The Leader of the Pack
Here at LSOZI, we are going to take off every Wednesday for a look at the old steam/diesel navies of the 1833-1946 period and will profile a different ship each week. These ships have a life, a tale...
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Baby Torp
While I knew that the SEALs had a program to use surplus old 1,400-pound Mark 37 (NT37) homing ASW torpedoes in an anti-ship role to zap enemy warships in coastal/harbor raids via a hand-launch, I...
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Warship Wednesday, Sep 18, 2019: The Red-Shirted Scourge of the Ottomans
Here at LSOZI, we are going to take off every Wednesday for a look at the old steam/diesel navies of the 1833-1946 period and will profile a different ship each week. These ships have a life, a tale...
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U-Boote der Klasse 206
Built to replace the troublesome Type 205 submarines of the West German Bundesmarine, which in turn had replaced the largely experimental Type 201 boats– Germany’s first class of submarines built after...
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Thresher remembered
From Arlington National Cemetery, where the new USS Thresher Memorial was dedicated last week: (U.S. Army photo by Elizabeth Fraser) A new memorial at Arlington National Cemetery commemorates the...
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