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Vermont, heading out
How about these epic shots via General Dynamics Electric Boat of the Block IV Virginia-class hunter killer USS Vermont (SSN-792) heading out from the Groton shipyard on sea trials on 6 May following...
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Cold Warriors in Kodachrome
Official caption: “A Helicopter Combat Support Squadron 2 (HC-2) SH-3G Sea King helicopter takes off from the stern of the dock landing ship USS Mount Vernon (LSD 39). A Mark 33 3-inch/50-caliber...
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Warship Wednesday, June 7, 2023: Shutterbug SSK
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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Holy Pith Helmets, Batman
How about this great group shot of the officers of the brand new 191-foot U.S. Revenue Cutter Tahoma, dressed in their tropical whites, complete with sun helmets. U.S. Coast Guard Historian’s Office...
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Right in the feels
While accompanying my lovely wife to a local big box hobby and crafts store so she could restock her art room with baubles, I saw this poor box of joy, relegated to a clearance shelf: “The smell, you...
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She deserved better
65 years ago today. The well-traveled Yorktown-class aircraft carrier, ex-USS Enterprise (CVS-6) awaiting disposal at the New York Naval Shipyard on 22 June 1958. She was sold for scrapping ten days...
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Forgotten Canadians: The WWII Veterans Guard
With news that the Canadian military just this week has finally made progress on replacing their WWII-era Browning Hi-Powers, this 80th-anniversary image seems very relevant: The above shows one...
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Warship Wednesday, June 28, 2023: The Tsar’s Jutland Veteran
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 King’s Shilling
As it is getting to be summer festival time– and the annual hate the lobsterbacks remembrance– this seemed apt. The King’s Shilling, 1770 (c) “A recruiting party of an officer, sergeant, drummer, and...
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Snapshots from the battle, 105 Years Ago
The naval Battle of Santiago/Combate en Santiago de Cuba, on 3 July 1898, pitting the five battleships, two armored cruisers, and two armed yachts of Commodore Winfield Scott Schley and RADM William...
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Husky at 80
“Invasion Craft—Sicily,” by U.S. Navy war artist Mitchell Jamieson. Painting, Oil on Canvas; 1943; Framed Dimensions 44H X 35W. NHHC Accession #: 88-193-GA “Grim, stark reality and the enemy lie ahead...
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First of Ford’s Subusters Hits the Water
Here we see, 105 years ago today, “Patrol Eagle (PE) Boat #1” ready to be Launched at the Ford River Rouge Plant, on the outskirts of Detroit, 11 July 1918. The vessel is seen sliding bow-first from...
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Old School and the New Class
80 Years Ago Today, 14 July 1943, while steaming from San Diego to Norfolk: The mighty dreadnought USS Nevada (Battleship No. 36), seen after her extensive repairs due to the pummeling she took at...
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Happy Bastille Day
14 July 1910. Béni Ounif, Bechar, Algeria. Parade of Senegalese Tirailleurs on the occasion of the Bastille Day celebrations there: Réf. : D0388-121-003-0639 Jules Imbert/ECPAD/Défense As detailed...
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Somewhere under a camo net in the Bay area…
80 years ago, July 1943: Riveter at work on an aircraft, possibly a PB2Y-3 Coronado patrol bomber hull, at Consolidated-Vultee (Convair) Aircraft Plant, San Diego, California. Original color photo by...
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Warship Wednesday, July 19, 2023: Red Sub Circumnavigator
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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PBY Catalina making a comback?
The Consolidated PBY-5 Catalina first flew in 1935 and, in a short decade, over 3,300 were built at four factories in the U.S., Canada, and the Soviet Union. Onto the Ramp PBY seaplane Catalina Joseph...
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If you hold your ear close, you can almost hear a gearshift…
In my travels around New Orleans, I tend to come across old French Foreign Legion insignia in antique and curious goods shops. My guess is that francophiles and Cajuns in the area often at one point...
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Beware Japanese destroyer bows if you are in a plywood boat…
I’m on the road this week and don’t have time to do a proper Warship Wednesday but I would be remiss if I missed the 80th anniversary of the loss of an Elco-built 80-foot motor torpedo boat, lost when...
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Cruising around Italy with the wind on your face
80 years ago today: Despatch rider Private Harry McDowell, B/73826, of the 48th Highlanders (Canada) delivering a message to the battalion’s advanced headquarters, Regalbuto, Italy, 4 August 1943....
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