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Final Great War Q-ship heads to the Breakers
The 1,200-ton HMS Saxifrage is the last of 112 Flower-class sloops constructed during WWI, the last of 366 Q-Ship “Special Service Vessels” from the same conflict, and only one of three remaining...
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Warship Wednesday 15 July 2026: El Abuelo
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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Pour one out for Mr. Reilly
Unless you are under a rock, you have no doubt heard of the passing of Irish-born Kiwi actor Sir Nigel John Dermot “Sam” Neill. While everyone else is talking Jurassic Park, we, of course, remember Mr....
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Warship Wednesday 8 July 2026: Bringer of Evil to the Evil
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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Trading salt air for salty mud
110 years ago today. July 6, 1916, a fortified sector of Pirnar, Greece, on the Salonika front along the Vardar River, showing a well-sandbagged artillery position held by French bachi-capped and...
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Iceland’s Protectors Turn 100
While the Royal Danish Navy was tasked with policing and defending the far-flung colony of Iceland, and, generally, a station ship or patrol boat of some sort was on location since 1859, the locals...
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Warship Wednesday 24 June 2026: Scourge of the Med
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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That time (Not During the 1860s) that the War Department Bought 128,000 Sabers
“Some Cavalry weapons.” Left to right: M1913 Saber, M1903 Rifle, M1917 Browning Machine Gun, M1918 Browning Automatic Rifle, and M1911 pistol. Taken at the Cavalry and Light Artillery School, Fort...
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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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Militare Omnia Animalia Curant
Mexican Punitive Expedition. The 5th U.S. Cavalry passing near San Geronimo. Colonel Wilder of the 5th Cavalry in front on the left, Colonel Tate of the 11th Cavalry in front on the right, during the...
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Hanging it up after 50 years: Puget Sound Coast Artillery Museum at Fort...
The Puget Sound Coast Artillery Museum’s 50th year at Fort Worden State Park is its last; the independent, non-profit museum is closing its doors on Sept. 7, 2026. Fort Worden was an active U.S. Army...
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Kirkwall by Night
Warship Wednesday will be back next week! I am on the road with limited access to the interwebs. Until then, enjoy this shot, some 115 years ago this evening. How about this great shot of the RN’s 1st...
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Beautiful Cincy
A period photograph of USS Cincinnati (Cruiser Number 7), which served between 1894 and 1921. The image, showing the graceful 3,200-ton cruiser in gleaming white with her original ornate bow crest,...
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What a dream island (complete with 14 inch guns)
I present a design drawing from the Boston Navy Yard, circa 1917-18, taking dazzle camouflage to the next level. Official caption: Battleship camouflaged as “an island.” Canvas screens, painted...
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Warship Wednesday 6 May 2026: 50 Years Low and Slow
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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Sanitäter!
From the collections of the Imperial War Museum. Great War-era German sanitäter’s (medical orderly’s) pouch, with contents. IWM SUR 821 Contents: Rectangular brown leather pouch, stamped on rear “Frank...
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USCGC Tampa, found
The 190-foot, 1,200-ton Miami-class auxiliary gunboat/steel-hulled “cruising cutter” Tampa (WGC-11) was built to spec at Newport News and commissioned on 19 August 1912. Constructed at $250,000 for the...
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30,000 Miles From Moscow to Marseille
In late 1915, it was hit on an idea for the soldier-rich but equipment-poor Imperial Russian Army– which had lost immense supplies of pre-war arms and ordnance in their series of sweeping defeats...
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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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Istanbul (Not Constantinople)
Some 80 years ago this week. Off Istanbul, Turkey, on 5 April 1946. Here we see the famed Iowa-class fast battleship USS Missouri (BB 63) moored in the Bosporus. She had just brought home for burial...
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