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Warship Wednesday 23 September 2026: With a Soaring Spirit
Here at LSOZI, we take a break every Wednesday to explore the old steam/diesel navies from 1833 to 1954, profiling a different ship each week. These ships have a life, a tale all their own, which...
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Nothing like that Northern Wedding
Some 40 years ago, in the darkest stretch of the Cold War, Exercise Northern Wedding ’86 was a massive, three-week NATO maritime and amphibious exercise conducted from late August to mid-September...
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Warship Wednesday 16 September 2026: The Submarine Altered across my Bows and...
Here at LSOZI, we take a break every Wednesday to explore the old steam/diesel navies from 1833 to 1954, profiling a different ship each week. These ships have a life, a tale all their own, which...
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Not war, but you can see it from here
Some 85 years ago this week. Somewhere in the U-boat-filled North Atlantic. Convoy to Iceland, September 1941: the New Orleans-class heavy cruiser USS Tuscaloosa (CA 37) hoists in a Curtiss SOC...
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Of canvas, ramps, and brass balls
Following in the heels of yesterday’s Warship Wednesday of the hardworking 9th HMS Aurora during WWII (“We were in action a Tremendous Amount of Times”), how about this great circa 1915 photo essay on...
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Warship Wednesday 9 September 2026: We were in action a Tremendous Amount of...
Here at LSOZI, we take a break every Wednesday to explore the old steam/diesel navies from 1833 to 1954, profiling a different ship each week. These ships have a life, a tale all their own, which...
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Sad final note for a 110-foot subchaser
On 23 May 1942, the 110-foot SC-497-class wooden-hulled submarine chaser PC-772 was laid down at the Peyton Co., Newport Beach, California, and commissioned on 15 April 1943 as USS SC-772, likely...
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Clydebank Beauty
Some 110 years ago this month, a great view of the conning tower and forward turrets, complete with newly-installed 15″/42 Mark I guns, of the future Renown-class battlecruiser HMS Repulse, seen whilst...
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A Last look at the old Sultan, 60 Years Ago
On the road in Idaho at an industry event, so instead of our regular Warship Wednesday programming, please accept this glimpse of the past. Every warship fan knows of the (in)famous Great War-era...
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Hammerhead Sovereign
The Royal Navy R-class battleship HMS Royal Sovereign (05) in 1941 was a Great War-era bruiser who was having a very busy year. With larger German surface raiders amok in the North Atlantic, she rode...
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Warship Wednesday 19 August 2026: Ward? Is that you?
Here at LSOZI, we take a break every Wednesday to explore the old steam/diesel navies from 1833 to 1954, profiling a different ship each week. These ships have a life, a tale all their own, which...
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Rare German Light Schnellboot Discovered, 96m under the Ionian Sea
While the big S-boots (E boats in Allied parlance) were a crown jewel of the Kriegsmarine during WWII (and with other countries well after), a class that sort of slipped through the historical cracks...
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Old Mary at Peace
On the road at an industry event all week in Louisiana, so we’re taking a knee on Warship Wednesday. In its place, how about this amazing photo essay by LIFE Photographer Peter Stackpole of the...
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Warship Wednesday 29 July 2026: The Lucky 13
Here at LSOZI, we take a break every Wednesday to explore the old steam/diesel navies from 1833 to 1964, profiling a different ship each week. These ships have a life, a tale all their own, which...
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Warship Wednesday (on a Thursday) 23 July 2026: Semper Laborantes
Here at LSOZI, we take a break every Wednesday to explore the old steam/diesel navies from 1833 to 1954, profiling a different ship each week. These ships have a life, a tale all their own, which...
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Final Great War Q-ship heads to the Breakers
The 1,200-ton HMS Saxifrage is the last of 112 Flower-class sloops constructed during WWI, the last of 366 Q-Ship “Special Service Vessels” from the same conflict, and only one of three remaining...
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The Big German in the Big Apple for the Spirit of 86
With the recent visit to Baltimore, New York, and Boston, and victory in the Five Sisters Race off Cape Cod by the German training barque SSS Gorch Fock, repeating the windjammer’s Bicentennial Op Sail...
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Warship Wednesday 15 July 2026: El Abuelo
Here at LSOZI, we take a break every Wednesday to explore the old steam/diesel navies from 1833 to 1954, profiling a different ship each week. These ships have a life, a tale all their own, which...
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Warship Wednesday 8 July 2026: Bringer of Evil to the Evil
Here at LSOZI, we take a break every Wednesday to explore the old steam/diesel navies from 1833 to 1954, profiling a different ship each week. These ships have a life, a tale all their own, which...
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Warship Wednesday 1 July 2026: The Klinker Dinker
Here at LSOZI, we take a break every Wednesday to explore the old steam/diesel navies from 1833 to 1954, profiling a different ship each week. These ships have a life, a tale all their own, which...
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