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Warship Wednesday April 2, The Lost Dorado
Here at LSOZI, we are going to take out 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. - Christopher Eger Warship...
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Warship Wednesday June 25, The Fighting Swenson
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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Confessions Of A US Navy P-3 Orion Maritime Patrol Pilot
Ran across an excellent piece over at Foxtrot Alpha on the real life experience of being a P-3 Orion/P-8 Poseidon pilot. Its long but really worth it. Ive been inside a Charlie variant on the ground...
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Warship Wednesday July 30th, 150th Anniversary of the Great Tennessee
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The flying mine assassin
Above is the Prototype RAMICS gun and mount on an MH-60S helicopter. The gun is an upgrade of the the 25 mm M242 Bushmaster cannon stretched to fire the same 30mm round as the GAU-8 Avenger gun found...
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More trouble for LCS program
The USS Independence of the General Dynamics Independence Class and USS Freedom of the Lockheed Martin Freedom Class littoral combat ships. U.S. Navy photo by Lt. Jan Shultis Two new (and lengthy)...
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Warship Wednesday Sept 10. 2014, Australia’s Most Silent Sub
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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Haupt’s torpedo for quickly wrecking wooden bridges.
Back in the Civil War, what we know today as land and naval mines and demolition charges were all lumped into the same title of : Torpedo. While these infernal devices were most commonly used by the...
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The martial art of Charles Pears, RI, ROI, RSMA
Charles Pears working on an oil painting of ‘R.M.S. Orcades’ Born in the quiet market town of Pontefract, Yorkshire was an Englishman by the name of Charles Pears on 9 Sept. 1873. A professional...
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Yum! Mines!
WATERS SOUTH OF THE KOREAN PENINSULA (Oct. 21, 2014) Mineman 1st Class (SW) Douglas Reynolds gives commands to the crane operator during deployment of the Mine Neutralization Vehicle (MNV) AN/SLQ 48...
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Navy releases more info on Ponce laser
141116-N-PO203-042ARABIAN GULF (Nov. 16, 2014) The Afloat Forward Staging Base (Interim) USS Ponce (ASB(I) 15) conducts an operational demonstration of the Office of Naval Research (ONR)-sponsored...
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Navy wants 20 Up-armored LCS to replace frigates
Lets just call a spade a spade. The Navy has a critical shortage of Subchaser/Destroyer Escort/Frigate type ships…again. Going back to the old steam and steel navy of the 1900s, the torpedo boat was...
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Mine Baby Samuel B Roberts back home for good…
“Frigate USS Samuel B. Roberts (FFG 58) Returns to Naval Station Mayport. Courtesy HD Video | Navy Media Content Services | Date: 12.15.2014. Family and friends welcome back the guided-missile frigate...
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Lost Rebel submarine wolfpack found (maybe)
Saw this today in which it appears that a quartet of Confederate submersibles, scuttled in Louisiana mud to prevent those darned Yankees from grabbing them up, have been located– right where they were...
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Want to buy a Navy trials boat? Cheap?
“Experimental Sea Slice The experimental Small Waterplane Area Twin Hull ship “Sea Slice” returns to its homeport of Naval Station San Diego, Calif., Nov. 30, 2005. U.S. Navy photo by Petty Officer 2nd...
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Warship Wednesday Feb. 18, 2015 Marshal Massena of Gallipoli
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 Feb. 25, 2015: A Minesweeping Narcissus in Tampa
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Semper Paratus as seen through WWII
During WWII, the Coast Guard bloomed from under 20,000 to more than a quarter million at its height in June 1944. At that time, the service contained 9,874 commissioned officers, 3,291 warrant officers...
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Ingalls making progress on their new SDV
Swimmer Deliver Vehicles (SDVs) are the unsung heroes of littoral covert naval action. Its that “covert” part that keeps them that way. News of them rarely eeks out and when it does its normally bad as...
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Warship Wednesday Aug 12, His Majesty’s Frozen U-boat Busting Bulldog
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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