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USS Shenandoah was the first of four United States Navy rigid airships. It was constructed during 1922–1923 at Lakehurst Naval Air Station , and first flew in September 1923. It developed the U.S. Navy's experience with rigid airships and made the first crossing of North America by airship.
USS Shenandoah (ZR-1), left and USS Los Angeles (ZR-3), right, in 1924 in Hangar No. 1, Lakehurst, New Jersey List of airships of the United States Navy identifies the airships of the United States Navy by type, identification, and class.
USS Shenandoah (1862), a screw sloop commissioned in 1863, active in the American Civil War and in use until 1886; USS Shenandoah (ZR-1), the first rigid airship built by the Navy, christened 1923; destroyed in a storm in 1925; USS Shenandoah (AD-26), a destroyer tender in service from 1945 to 1980
The USS Shenandoah leaving Fort Worth in October 1924, as shown in an image in the Fort Worth Star-Telegram. ... but they wouldn’t be lighter-than-air ships. The fate of the Shenandoah is a sad ...
US Navy airships and balloons, 1931. November 25, USS Los Angeles is commissioned in Lakehurst, NJ. The two airships USS Shenandoah and USS Los Angeles had to share the limited supply of helium, and thus alternated operating and overhauls. [4] The Los Angeles flew successfully for 8 years.
The hangar was used to construct the USS Shenandoah from 1922 to 1923. [8] On September 4, 1923, the ship made a brief maiden flight in the vicinity of Lakehurst and was christened on October 10, 1923. [8] In 1924 the US Navy obtained its second rigid airship built in Germany and delivered to the United States as a war reparation payment.
USS Shenandoah. A series of four airships (two one-offs and two production Akron-class vessels) were the only airships in American history to be commissioned as ships of the United States Navy. Another airship, ZR-2 (the British R.38) crashed and was destroyed before delivery, and was therefore never commissioned. [22] USS Shenandoah
Construction of USS Shenandoah, 1923, showing the framework of a rigid airship. A rigid airship is a type of airship (or dirigible) in which the envelope is supported by an internal framework rather than by being kept in shape by the pressure of the lifting gas within the envelope, as in blimps (also called pressure airships) and semi-rigid airships.