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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 (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
USS Shenandoah (AD-44) was the fourth and final ship of the Yellowstone-class of destroyer tenders. AD-44 was the fifth ship to bear the name, USS Shenandoah as named for the Shenandoah Valley . She was commissioned in 1983, only three years after the decommissioning of the previous USS Shenandoah (AD-26) , also a destroyer tender.
The Shenandoah was the U.S. Navy’s baby, the first of four, whose mission would be reconnaissance flights over the broad expanse of the Pacific watching for a Japanese battle fleet, a major ...
USS Shenandoah (ZR-1) - served 1923-25, lost 3 September 1925 due to structural failure while in line squalls, 14 killed (ZR-2) - British-built as R38 , lost 24 August 1921 before US Navy acceptance (and before official use of the ZR-2 designation) due to severe control inputs at low altitude and high speed far in excess of structural strength ...
Shenandoah (left) and Los Angeles moored in Hangar No. 1 in 1924 The hangar was used to construct the USS Shenandoah (ZR-1) 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 ]
Its destruction was the first of the great airship disasters, followed by the Italian-built US semi-rigid airship Roma in 1922 (34 dead), the French Dixmude in 1923 (52 dead), the USS Shenandoah in 1925 (14 dead), the British R101 in 1930 (48 dead), the USS Akron in 1933 (73 dead), the USS Macon in 1935 (2 dead), and the German Hindenburg in ...
ZR-1 was commissioned into the US Navy as USS Shenandoah in October 1923. [6] At this time, another new rigid airship was under construction at the Luftschiffbau Zeppelin works in Germany - intended to compensate for the ships intended for reparations after the war, the ship was also used as a means of keeping zeppelin construction alive in ...