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Bronze coins from Manila Bay
OLYMPIA’s propellers photographed in a floating drydock in 1904 Via the Independence Seaport Museum: Cruiser OLYMPIA’s two propellers (screws) were 14 feet in diameter and had three blades. The screws,...
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Get to the choppa: Battlewagon edition
An SH-60B Sea Hawk helicopter is secured by flight deck crewmen aboard the battleship Iowa (BB-61) on 1 Sep 1985. Official USN photo # DN-ST-86-02511, by PHC Jeff Hilton, The Iowa-class battleships...
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Warship Wednesday, April 15, 2020: The Winged Spinach Can
Here at LSOZI, we 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 tale all their...
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Warship Wednesday, April 22, 2020: Freeboard is Overrated, anyway
Here at LSOZI, we 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 tale all their...
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Warship Wednesday, April 29, 2020: Faithful Battlewagon of the Three Crowns
Here at LSOZI, we 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 tale all their...
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Warship Wednesday, May 6, 2020: A Ship that Can’t be Licked
Here at LSOZI, we 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 all their own,...
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Inside the Aragon Castle
If you are a warship fan, you have no doubt seen it in the background in hundreds of classic images. Italian destroyer Dardo shown in 1935 entering Taranto with the Aragon Castle in the background. NH...
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Battleship No. 36’s final resting place, visited 15,000 feet down
USS Nevada (BB-36) survived the hell of Pearl Harbor and was famously the only battleship able to get underway that day. Repaired and returned to service, she earned seven battlestars from France to...
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Warship Wednesday, May 13, 2020: Sisu via dugout canoe
Here at LSOZI, we 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 tale all their...
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Warship Wednesday, May 20, 2020: The Long Pennant
Here at LSOZI, we 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 tale all their...
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Warship Wednesday, May 27, 2020: The Showboat and the Speedboats
Here at LSOZI, we 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 all their own,...
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Warship Wednesday, June 3, 2020: Father Neptune’s Thundering Mountain
Here at LSOZI, we 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 tale all their...
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Warship Wednesday, June 10, 2020: Yes, but these go to 17 inches
Here at LSOZI, we 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 tale all their...
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Don’t hold your breath for more great wreck finds from R/V Petrel
In the past few years, the research vessel R/V Petrel has been combing the Pacific to find and document the most famous lost warships of WWII. This included the carriers USS Hornet, Wasp, and Lexington...
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East Bank buzzing again
As a kid, I grew up in South Pascagoula, in a house, appropriately enough, on Pascagoula Street just south of Ingalls Avenue. This was in the 1970s and 80s, at a time when Ingalls Shipbuilding (then...
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Looking for Logs in all the right places
A team of five graduate student interns working on a project titled “Seas of Knowledge: Digitization and Retrospective Analysis of the Historical Logbooks of the United States Navy” have been hard at...
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Warship Wednesday, June 17, 2020: Mohican Motorboat
Here at LSOZI, we 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 tale all their...
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Warship Wednesday, June 24, 2020: ‘You are the most beautiful ship in the world’
Here at LSOZI, we 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 all their own,...
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Warship Wednesday, July 1, 2020: The Hunchback of Nord Virginia
Here at LSOZI, we 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 all their own,...
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Warship Wednesday, July 8, 2020: Service Guarantees Citizenship
Here at LSOZI, we 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 tale all their...
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