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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.
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 (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 ...
USS Sachem (1861) USS Sam Houston (1861) USS Samson; USS Samuel Gompers; USS Sarah and Caroline; USS Sea Bird; USS Shenandoah (AD-26) USS Shenandoah (AD-44) USS Sierra (AD-18) USS Sovereign (1855) USS Stagbush; USS Stonewall (1863) USS Aegir; USS Antaeus; USS Anthedon; USS Apollo; USS Bushnell (AS-15) USS Canopus (AS-34) USS Clytie; USS Dixon ...
The USS Shenandoah leaving Fort Worth in October 1924, as shown in an image in the Fort Worth Star-Telegram. The Fort Worth Star-Telegram was the nation’s only newspaper reporting regularly on ...
April 3, USS Akron was caught in a severe storm and flown into the surface of the sea off the shore of New Jersey. It carried no life boats and few life vests, so 73 of its crew of 76 died from drowning or hypothermia. US Navy Zeppelin USS Macon (ZRS-5) over Moffett Field in 1933. April 21, the USS Macon is launched.
The Shenandoah-class destroyer tenders were modified United States Maritime Commission Type C3-class ships. None of the ships saw service during World War II, Isle Royal and Bryce Canyon directly entered the Reserve Fleet, finally being commissioned in 1950 and in 1962. Great Lakes, Canopus and Arrowhead were cancelled in 1945.