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The Bells, The Bells
Trinity Marine recently auctioned off a ton of historic RN ship’s bells, primarily from the 20th Century, from the Ferrers-Walker Royal Navy Collection. These were formally on loan to the RN’s...
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Warship Wednesday, Aug. 7, 2024: Oft Overlooked Essex
Here at LSOZI, we take off every Wednesday for a look at the old steam/diesel navies of the 1833-1954 period and will profile a different ship each week. These ships have a life, a tale all their own,...
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Schrodinger’s Naval Guns
Self-portraits from an Austrian Army feldpost letter from 28-year-old LT Erwin Schrödinger to his cousin Hugo Hinterberger, dated 23 February 1916. The Austrian theoretical physicist, who earned his...
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The Many Faces of the Kreuzer Augsburg
Commissioned in 1908, the SMS Augsburg, one of four Kolberg-class light cruisers in the Kaiserliche Marine, had been detailed to train torpedo and gun crews for the High Seas Fleet. Meanwhile, her...
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Hawke, Found
The 7,700-ton Edgar-class protected cruiser HMS Hawke. Commissioned on 16 May 1893, Hawke was the only member of her 9-ship class to be lost in the Great War. IWM Q 39034 Lost in Waters Deep in...
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Très coloré!
Somewhere on what would soon be referred to as the Western Front, we see this impressive period Tournassoud autochrome Lumiere showing soldiers of 3e régiment de Zouaves (3e RZ), 37e division...
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Warship Wednesday, Aug. 28, 2024: Inadvertent Records
Here at LSOZI, we take off every Wednesday for a look at the old steam/diesel navies of the 1833-1954 period and will profile a different ship each week. These ships have a life, a tale all their own,...
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First Time Jitters
Official wartime caption: “Members of the IX Troop Carrier Command hold a last-minute briefing session before another glider mission in Holland. 2 September 1944.” U.S. Air Force Number 83086AC, NARA...
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Revenge for the parrots
What a tranquil scene, some 110 years ago today: The 3,700-ton Bremen-class light cruiser SMS Leipzig, part of KAdm Maximilian von Spee’s exiled German East Asia Squadron, is seen coaling in Guaymas...
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Warship Wednesday Sept. 25, 2024: Fearless Outpost
Here at LSOZI, we take off every Wednesday for a look at the old steam/diesel navies of the 1833-1954 period and will profile a different ship each week. These ships have a life, a tale all their own,...
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Thomas-Morse Hydroplane
30 September 1918. Original Caption: “Front view Thomas-Morse type SH-4 Naval Training Hydroplane furnished the United States Navy during 1916-1917. Fitted with Curtiss OX-5, 100 H.P. aeromotor; wing...
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Would-be Nautilus
Some 105 years ago this week: USS H-2 (Submarine No. 29) partially submerged in the Hudson River, while on recruiting duty at New York City, on 6 October 1919, with the Manhattan skyline in the...
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Canada’s Answer
110 Years Ago. October 1914. RN LCDR Norman Wilkinson‘s depiction of the sailing of Canada’s First Contingent of troops, the Canadian Expeditionary Force, over 31,000 strong, from Canada to England to...
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Warship Wednesday Oct. 9, 2024: A Cat with Several Lives
Here at LSOZI, we take off every Wednesday for a look at the old steam/diesel navies of the 1833-1954 period and will profile a different ship each week. These ships have a life, a tale all their own,...
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Life on one of the ‘Small Boys’
Following up on our Warship Wednesday this week, which covered the Great War-era Admiralty Strath-class “battle trawler” HMT William Barnett (3632) and its later life as the French Navy’s auxiliary...
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A Forest of Doomed Lattice
105 years ago today. Philadelphia Navy Yard, Pennsylvania. 22 October 1919. Obsolete “pre-dreadnought” type battleships in the Reserve Basin almost a year after the conclusion of the Great War,...
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Warship Wednesday Oct. 23, 2024: A Tough Little Wolf
Here at LSOZI, we take off every Wednesday to look at the old steam/diesel navies of the 1833-1954 period and will profile a different ship each week. These ships have a life, a tale all their own,...
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Man Bites Mule
80 years ago this week. 23 October 1944. Ramgarh, India, CBI theater. “Man Bites Mule. Although it’s only a slight variation on the popular prescription for ‘news,’ it isn’t news when man bites mule,...
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Chilean Downtime
110 years ago this week, 3 November 1914. Admiral Maximilian von Spee’s victorious German East Asia Squadron (Ostasiengeschwader) basking at anchor in Valparaiso, Chile just a few days after the...
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Warship Wednesday, Nov. 6, 2024: The Ones That Got Away
Here at LSOZI, we take off every Wednesday for a look at the old steam/diesel navies of the 1833-1954 period and will profile a different ship each week. These ships have a life, a tale all their own,...
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