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Warship Wednesday 10 June 2026: Tough Trolle
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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Britannia Squeeks
The Royal Navy has spent the past 14 weeks gearing up a mine countermeasures response to send to the Persian Gulf region. That mission will be the 16,000-ton civilian-manned Bay-class auxiliary RFA...
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Warship Wednesday 20 May 2026: Long Night of the Wolf
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 22 April 2026: The Morning Star
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 18 March 2026: A Lake by any Other Name
Here at LSOZI, we take a break every Wednesday to explore the old steam/diesel navies of the 1833-1954 period, profiling a different ship each week. These ships have a life, a tale all their own, which...
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Warship Wednesday, 11 March 2026: Mighty Morrill
Here at LSOZI, we take a break every Wednesday to explore the old steam/diesel navies of the 1833-1954 period, 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) 19 February 2026: Plywood Warrior
Here at LSOZI, we take a break every Wednesday to explore the old steam/diesel navies of the 1833-1954 period, 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 Friday) 13 February 2026: The Russian Cruiser that...
Here at LSOZI, we take a break every Wednesday to explore the old steam/diesel navies of the 1833-1954 period, profiling a different ship each week. These ships have a life, a tale all their own, which...
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MCM Torch Passed in the Arabian Gulf (Again)
The four recently decommissioned 224-foot U.S. Navy Avenger-class Mine Countermeasures ships — the former USS Devastator, USS Dextrous, USS Gladiator, and USS Sentry — have departed Bahrain aboard the...
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Greyhound Sardines
A cluster of Great War-era Wickes (Lumberton) class four-piper flush deck destroyers seen out of commission, in mothballs at San Diego, 4 April 1939. The converted fast minelayers USS Montgomery...
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Warship Wednesday, 7 January 2026: Wilbur’s Beachcombing
Here at LSOZI, we take a break every Wednesday to explore the old steam/diesel navies of the 1833-1954 period, profiling a different ship each week. These ships have a life, a tale all their own, which...
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Warship Wednesday 19 November 2025: Pride of the Scouting Group
Here at LSOZI, we take a break every Wednesday to explore the old steam/diesel navies of the 1833-1954 period, profiling a different ship each week. These ships have a life, a tale all their own, which...
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Sun Shines on the Commissioning of the final Indy LCS
The brand-spanking-new Independence-variant littoral combat ship USS Pierre (LCS 38) was brought to life in a ceremony held in Panama City over the weekend in shorts and flip-flop weather, “Under the...
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Pour 12 out for the ever-maligned yet everlasting Kingstons
Over the past several years, I have made no bones about my admiration for the 12 humble yet effective Kingston-class Maritime Coastal Defence Vessels (MCDV) of the Royal Canadian Navy. Kingston-class...
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Army deploying new ‘terrain-shaping munition’ to Europe
The 2nd Cavalry Regiment, based at Rose Barracks in Vilseck, Germany, will be the first unit to field the recently IOC’d XM204 Top Attack Terrain Shaping Munition. The regiment is the longest...
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‘Pre-Wetting’ the old Girl
Some 70 years ago this week, 28 September 1955. “Pre-wetting” tests on the County (Kent)-class heavy cruiser HMS Cumberland (57), at the time, the nearly 30-year-old WWII veteran was the Royal Navy’s...
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Warship Wednesday, September 17, 2025: ‘A Good Record, and a Proud Ship’
Here at LSOZI, we take a break every Wednesday to explore the old steam/diesel navies of the 1833-1954 period, profiling a different ship each week. These ships have a life, a tale all their own, which...
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Australia Goes $1.12B Hard in the Remote Minisub Paint
Palmer Luckey’s California-based Anduril Industries has developed its Ghost Shark XLAUV (Extra-Large Autonomous Underwater Vehicle) autonomous submarine from rough draft to finished product in three...
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Big Iron secures from the Persian Gulf Watch
An MH-53E Sea Dragon, attached to the “Blackhawks” of Helicopter Mine Countermeasures Squadron (HM) 15, idles on the flight deck of the world’s largest aircraft carrier, USS Gerald R. Ford (CVN 78),...
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The last shots in the foggy, frozen Kuriles, 80 years ago this week
While the sweeping battle between the shell of the once mighty Japanese Kwantung Army in Manchuria and Korea, reduced to some 600,000 second-rate troops, and the 1.5 million strong Soviet Far East...
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