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Warship Wednesday, Feb. 21, 2018: The Saint and the Terror
Here at LSOZI, we are going to take off every Wednesday for a look at the old steam/diesel navies of the 1859-1946 time period and will profile a different ship each week. These ships have a life, a...
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Warship Wednesday, March 7, 2018: The ‘most fightingest ship’ of the Great North
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Warship Wednesday, March 14, 2018: Always on the edge of history
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Warship Wednesday, March 21, 2018: After 75 years, take a breather
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Warship Wednesday, March 28, 2018: Le sabordage!
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Warship Wednesday, April 4, 2018: The often imitated but never duplicated Indy
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Warship Wednesday, April 11, 2018: Ms. Lane, of Paraguay, Nashville and...
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Happy Birthday, Yorktown
First off, this is a Kodachrome original, not a colorized photo. It shows the crew of the brand-new U.S. Navy Essex-class aircraft carrier USS Yorktown (CV-10) at attention as the National Ensign is...
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One very cold cruiser, 75 years ago today
Here we see the USS San Francisco (CA-38) silhouetted against a snowy mountain in Kulak Bay, Adak, Aleutian Islands, 25 April 1943. NHHC 80-G-72059 A New Orleans-class cruiser, “Frisco Maru” received...
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Warship Wednesday, April 25, 2018: Big Vincent and the seagoing pyro party
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Warship Wednesday, May 16, 2018: Schermerhorn’s contribution to naval history
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Warship Wednesday, June 6, 2018: The eternal Nordic shark of Sword Beach
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Bonnie Dick on the scene, 49 years ago today
In a special Warship Wednesday, here we see the (then) 25-year-old Essex-class aircraft carrier USS Bon Homme Richard (CVA-31) underway in the Gulf of Tonkin on 13 June 1969 during her fifth cruise to...
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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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Happy solstice– now light em up!
In honor of the longest day of the year, here is a pair of warships all aglow. Below is the Royal Norwegian Navy jager (destroyer) KNM Oslo, seen from the starboard side all ablaze, around 1953....
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Warship Wednesday, June 27, 2018: The unsung turbo-electric wonder boat
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Warship Wednesday, July 4, 2018: Remembering the Independence most often...
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Vintage greetings from the USS Rhode Island, Battleship No. 17
Via the Thomas Crane Public Library’s Fore River Shipyard Postcard Collection: Commissioned into the Atlantic Fleet in February 1906, Rhode Island was one of five Virginia-class pre-dreadnoughts built...
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Warship Wednesday, July 11, 2018: A big gun in a little boat
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Battlewagon on a lake, 103 years ago today
Here we see the Illinois-class pre-dreadnought type battleship USS Wisconsin (BB-9) drawing 23 feet of water in Gatun Lake, Panama, 16 July 1915. Obsolete within five years of her commissoning, she...
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