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Salty Mineman says to the Master Chief…
And the kicker: everyone warned him beforehand… Gold stripes are overrated, anyway. Oh, wait…
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The hard-serving Bangor-class and the last Canadian loss of WWII
An unsung class of warship during WWII was the 59-vessel Bangor/Blyth/Ardrossan-class oceangoing minesweepers. Despite their designation, these 600-ton/162-foot vessels carried a decent main gun...
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Vale, Herman Wouk
As a kid, I was a naval film junkie and the War and Remembrance, and The Winds of War miniseries along with Humphrey Bogart’s The Caine Mutiny were standard fare. Who can ever forget the ultimate toxic...
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Warship Wednesday, May 29, 2019: About that new Marker in Times Square
Here at LSOZI, we are going to 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...
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Warship Wednesday, June 5, 2019: Overlord’s First Loss, now 75 years on
Here at LSOZI, we are going to 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...
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Mr. Limpet makes his daytime appearance in the Gulf of Oman
Not this guy who everybody loved: This guy: (Or approximate) The attack in International waters hit the Panama-flagged chemical/oil tanker Kokuka Courageous (19,349t), owned by Singapore-based Bernhard...
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Boom!
“GULF OF THAILAND (June 7, 2019) The Avenger-class mine countermeasures ship USS Pioneer (MCM 9) observes a controlled mine detonation while conducting a joint mine countermeasures exercise with the...
View ArticleLimpet mine update: ‘With high confidence’
U.S. Navy CDR Sean Kido, head of Explosive Ordnance Disposal Mobile Unit One One (EODMU 11) explains the attack on the Panama-flagged chemical/oil tanker Kokuka Courageous (19,349t) and the...
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‘The ships that the Navy forgot’
Avenger-class mine countermeasures ship USS Pioneer (MCM 9) observes a controlled mine detonation while conducting joint mine countermeasures exercise with the Royal Thai Navy during Cooperation Afloat...
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Queen City, Fifth Edition
The fifth U.S. Navy warship built for the first city constructed after the War of Independence was commissioned into the Fleet this weekend. All photos: Chris Eger, feel free to share. Note that big...
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HMS Urge, found on eternal patrol
HMS Urge, IWM FL 3433 Commissioned 12 December 1940, the British U-class submarine HMS Urge (N 17) served in World War II throughout 1941, seeing extensive action in the Med. Over the course of 20...
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Warship Wednesday (on a Thursday) Jan 2, 2020: One Tough Russian
Here at LSOZI, we are going to 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...
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Warship Wednesday Feb. 5, 2020: Witness to the Sunrise
Here at LSOZI, we are going to 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...
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By the light of the full moon, 29 years ago today
Here we see John Charles Roach’s 1991 painting, “Adroit Marks the Way for Princeton.” “With the use of hand flares, USS Adroit (MSO-509) marks possible mines in an effort to extract the already damaged...
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LCS may actually get their drone minesweeper, afterall
The idea behind the littoral combat ship program is that it would take the place of the aging de-fanged Oliver Hazard Perry-class FFs– which had their original missile batteries neutered– as well as...
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Fjord-nance
During a recent mine warfare exercise by Standing NATO Mine Countermeasures Group One (SNMCMG1), the flotilla identified 170 curious underwater objects along the seabed of Norway’s Oslofjord. After...
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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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It’s official, first four LCSs headed to “Red Lead Row.” Why not Blow Row?
As we have talked about previously, the first flight littoral combat ships (Freedom, Independence, Fort Worth, and Coronado) have been deemed too beta to be upgraded enough for regular fleet use. In a...
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After 30 years, Scout to hang it up
Avenger-class mine countermeasures ship USS Scout (MCM 8) sails off the coast of Southern California as part of Rim of the Pacific (RIMPAC) Exercise 2014. (U.S. Navy photo by Chief Mass Communication...
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Bofors/Breda 40s still at work
NATO Maritime Group Two (SNMG2) and Standing NATO Mine Countermeasures Group Two (SNMCMG2) recently poked around in the Black Sea, operating with the Bulgarian and Ukrainian navies, which no doubt gave...
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