laststandonzombieisland / Sep 17, 2026 at 12:03 AM 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 sometimes takes them to the strangest places.- Christopher Eger. If you enjoy my always ad-free Warship Wednesday content, you can support it by buying me a cup of joe at…

Posted on September 17, 2026 by laststandonzombieisland Some 40 years ago, in the darkest stretch of the Cold War, Exercise Northern Wedding ’86 was a massive, three-week NATO maritime and amphibious exercise conducted from late August to mid-September 1986, involving 150 ships, 35,000 troops, and 500 aircraft from 10 Western nations. The NARA has hundreds of pics from the exercise,

ITS Giuseppe Garibaldi/KRI Sriwijaya being escorted by KRI Brawijaya and KRI Prabu Siliwangi in Indonesian waters. TNI AL picture. On 17 September, the Indonesian Navy (TNI AL) officially announced that the former Italian Navy aircraft carrier, ITS Giuseppe Garibaldi, has entered Indonesian waters. The milestone marks a historic chapter for the service, bringing the country’s first-ever aircraft carrier home.

General Dynamics Electric Boat transferred the first completed 184-foot Virginia Payload Module section for the future USS Arizona from Quonset Point, Rhode Island, to Groton, Connecticut. The 10,200-ton Block V submarine hull incorporates an 83-foot-long midships extension that houses four large-diameter payload tubes. This structural integration increases the vessel's vertical launch capacity to 40 Tomahawk-class or equivalent strategic munitions. More here -

Posted on September 18, 2026 by laststandonzombieisland One comment The end of an era, boys. The A-10 Thunderbolt II SN 82-0665 completed its final training sortie with the 66th Weapons Squadron this week, flown by Lt. Col. Ridge Flick, the unit’s commander. “The flight closed a chapter of providing graduate-level training in advanced close air support with the U.S. Air Weapons School…

By - Craig Langford - September 17, 2026  The procurement method and timetable for replacing HMS Protector remain undecided, more than two months after Defence confirmed that funding had been allocated for a successor to the Royal Navy’s Antarctic patrol ship. The latest position was set out in a written parliamentary answer to Conservative MP Ben Obese-Jecty, who asked when a decision would be made on both the method of procurement and the exact replacement timeline.

 Photographed circa 1940, with SOC seaplanes on her catapults. Photographed by George Winstead. Collection of Vice Admiral George C. Dyer, USN (Retired). U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command Photograph.Catalog #: NH 77076 Oklahoma after her modernization, passing Alcatraz USS Oklahoma (BB-37) at anchor

The island of Penrhyn in the northern Cook Islands has welcomed a New Zealand Defence Force contingent for the annual Humanitarian Assistance and Disaster Relief task Exercise Tropic Twilight. 17 September, 2026 At the request of the Cook Islands Government and supported by the New Zealand Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade, more than 50 personnel have deployed to Penrhyn via a Royal New Zealand Air Force C-130J aircraft to deliver construction, maintenance, health, and hydrography tasks for the communities of Penrhyn.

The JS Kashima will be open to the public for a few hours. Brendan Kergin - Sep 10, 2026 4:45 PM

Heather Mongilio - September 11, 2026 5:50 PM Strait of Bab-el-Mandeb showing Perim Island and Ras Menheli, also known as Bab-el-Mandeb Peninsula and Shaikh Said Peninsula, taken from the International Space Station on March 13, 2010. NASA photo The Houthis in Yemen have seized Perim Island, a parcel of land that lies in the Red Sea in an amphibious assault, giving the Iranian-backed group a strategic foothold over the Bab el-Mandeb.

Dzirhan Mahadzir - September 15, 2026 2:09 PM HMAS Perth (left) conducts a replenishment at sea with United States Navy Nimitz-class aircraft carrier, USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN-72), while attached to Carrier Strike Group 3 (CSG-3) in the South China Sea, posted Sept. 11, 2026. Australian Defense Forces photo USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN-72) recently operated with Royal Australian Navy frigates in the South China Sea, the Australian Department of Defense announced Tuesday.

16/09/2026 - by Adrian Hill - 11 min read Written by Adrian Hill We are living through the most dangerous geopolitical era since the end of the Cold War, and the Royal Navy that must protect us is stretched to breaking point. Former British diplomat Adrian Hill shows how governments of both parties hollowed out the fleet in peacetime, and what it will now take to rectify the situation.

15th September 2026 at 11:21am HMS Queen Elizabeth conducts first RAS for two years One of the UK's two aircraft carriers has carried out her first replenishment at sea (RAS) for the first time in two years. RFA Tidespring, a Tide-class tanker, provided HMS Queen Elizabeth with fuel, while the aircraft carrier's bridge and seamanship teams acquired more skills on the vessel.

Flying one of the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) F-35A Lightning II aircraft around the country was a pilot who started his career in the Royal New Zealand Air Force’s (RNZAF) No. 75 Squadron, cutting his teeth on the A-4 Skyhawks. 15 September, 2026 “It’s been a bit of a homecoming,” Squadron Leader Jason “Easty” Easthope said. The RAAF fast jet pilot from Rotorua was at RNZAF Base Ohakea last week during a deployment for Exercise Agile Tasman, working alongside RNZAF and New Zealand Army personnel.

BySeaWaves Magazine - Sep 11, 2026 Royal Danish Navy Photos In August and September, Exercise Northern Viking 26 brought together forces from the United States, Denmark, Canada, Norway, France, Belgium, Poland and the host nation Iceland to train the defense of the North Atlantic Ocean and the strategically crucial GIUK corridor between Greenland, Iceland and the United Kingdom. During the exercise, the Navy’s mine clearance capability, Mine Counter Measures (MCM) Denmark, again worked closely with the Canadian Navy.

BySeaWaves Magazin -Sep 11, 2026 Official photo SLNS Sindurala departed from Sri Lanka today (11 September 2026) to take part in the bilateral naval exercise SLINEX – 2026 between the Sri Lanka Navy and the Indian Navy. The bilateral naval exercise is conducted annually with the aim of further strengthening cooperation, interoperability and professional exchange between the Indian Navy and Sri Lanka Navy.

BySeaWaves Magazine - Sep 11, 2026 The Italian Naval Vessel ‘ITS Giuseppe Garibaldi’ arrived in Sri Lanka today, 9 September 2026, on a replenishment visit. The Sri Lanka Navy welcomed the visiting ship in accordance with naval traditions at the port of Colombo. ‘ITS Giuseppe Garibaldi’ is a 180m long Landing Helicopter Aircraft Vessel commanded by Captain Marco GUERRIERO.

Anzac-class frigate HMNZS Te Mana and long range sustainment vessel HMNZS Aotearoa have docked in Japan at Yokosuka Naval Base. We have a long history with Yokosuka Naval Base including during The Korean War where our Navy often used it to resupply and repair. Hosted by 防衛省　海上自衛隊　(Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force) guided-missile destroyer JS Maya, our Task Group is resupplying and conducting maintenance to prepare for further operations

British armored cruiser HMS Shannon as built with short funnels HMS Shannon was a Minotaur-class armoured cruiser built for the Royal Navy in the mid-1900s. Before the First World War, she served with the Home Fleet, generally as the flagship of a cruiser squadron. The ship remained with the Grand Fleet, as the Home Fleet was renamed when the war began, for the entire war, but only participated in a single battle, the Battle of Jutland in May 1916. Shannon spent most of the war patrolling the North Sea for German warships and commerce raiders. She was paid off in 1919 and sold for scrap in 1922.

A flotilla leader, she saw service in the Home Fleet before World War II and the ship made several deployments to Spanish waters during the Spanish Civil War, enforcing the arms blockade imposed by Britain and France on both sides of the conflict. Kempenfelt was transferred to the Royal Canadian Navy (RCN) in 1939 and renamed HMCS Assiniboine. During World War II, she served as a convoy escort in the battle of the Atlantic, sinking one German submarine by ramming, on anti-submarine patrols during the invasion of Normandy, and was employed as a troop transport after VE Day for returning Canadian servicemen, before being decommissioned in mid-1945.

HMS Ark Royal (R09) was an Audacious-class aircraft carrier of the Royal Navy and, when she was decommissioned in 1978, was the Royal Navy's last remaining conventional catapult and arrested-landing aircraft carrier. She was the Royal Navy's first aircraft carrier to be equipped with an angled flight deck.  

HMS Illustrious was a light aircraft carrier of the Royal Navy and the second of three Invincible-class ships constructed in the late 1970s and early 1980s. She was the fifth warship and second aircraft carrier to bear the name Illustrious, and was affectionately known to her crew as "Lusty". In 1982, the conflict in the Falklands necessitated that Illustrious be completed and rushed south to join her sister ship HMS Invincible and the veteran carrier HMS Hermes.