• of America, have been named Shenandoah, after the Shenandoah River of western Virginia and West Virginia. USS Shenandoah (1862), a screw sloop commissioned...
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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...
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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...
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  • South Island USS Shenandoah, several ships USNS Shenandoah (T-AO-181), an oiler laid down in 1964, renamed USNS Potomac (T-AO-181) CSS Shenandoah, an 1863...
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  • The first USS Shenandoah was a wooden screw sloop of the United States Navy. Shenandoah was built by the Philadelphia Navy Yard and launched on 8 December...
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    fabric-clad rigid airships were given commissions, the same as warships. USS Shenandoah (ZR-1) - served 1923-25, lost 3 September 1925 due to structural failure...
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    USS Patoka (AO–9/AV–6/AG–125) was a replenishment oiler made famous as a tender for the airships Shenandoah (ZR-1), Los Angeles (ZR-3) and Akron (ZRS-4)...
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    failure during a test flight. America then started constructing the USS Shenandoah, designed by the Bureau of Aeronautics and based on the Zeppelin L 49...
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    British R38, the US airship Roma, the French Dixmude, the USS Shenandoah, the British R101, and the USS Akron. The Zeppelin Company had proposed LZ 128 in 1929...
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    LAKEHURST: Part I: Beginnings and USS SHENANDOAH (ZR 1) Part II: The Last Two Lakehurst US Navy Dirigibles, USS AKRON (ZRS 4) and USS MACON (ZRS 5)" (PDF). New...
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    USS Shenandoah (AD-26) was one of ten planned destroyer tenders built at the tail end of World War II (orders for four of the ships were cancelled due...
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    division officer on USS Shenandoah (AD-44), navigator and jumboization coordinator on USS Monongahela (AO-178), operations officer on USS Moosbrugger (DD-980)...
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    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)...
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    the USS Shenandoah (ZR-1), which was the first rigid airship to complete a flight across North America. He was killed in the crash of the Shenandoah. Born...
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    world's reserve of the gas. ZR-1 was commissioned into the US Navy as USS Shenandoah in October 1923. At this time, another new rigid airship was under construction...
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  • promoted to commander on July 25, 1866. Wells commanded the screw sloop USS Shenandoah from 1870 to 1874. He was promoted to captain on June 19, 1871. Wells...
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  • Navy Seal. Beal joined the U.S. Navy in 1948, first serving aboard the USS Shenandoah (AD-26) as a gunner's mate. He joined the underwater demolition team...
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    United States as a war reparation payment. The USS Los Angeles (ZR-3) shared Hangar No. 1 with the USS Shenandoah. The hangar also provided service and storage...
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  • has media related to Mooring masts. USS Akron approaches mast, circa 1931-1933 USS Shenandoah attached to a mast USS Los Angeles at a near-vertical position...
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    the airship, and a survivor of the crashed American military airship, USS Shenandoah, shouted the famous order, "Navy men, Stand fast!!" to successfully...
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  • the USS Shenandoah, is built in Hangar No. 1 at Lakehurst, New Jersey. August 20, The USS Shenandoah, is christened. September, USS Shenandoah is launched...
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  • Zachary Lansdowne (Jack Lord) is killed in the crash of the dirigible USS Shenandoah. This is followed by a second disaster in which six aircraft crash after...
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    stained glass windows memorializing the loss of naval airships USS Akron and USS Shenandoah. Both airships had been based at the nearby Lakehurst Naval Air...
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    and fly America's great dirigibles: the USS Shenandoah (ZR-1), USS Los Angeles (ZR-3), USS Macon (ZRS-5), and USS Akron (ZRS-4). Much of his collection...
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    command of Navy Commander Bowman H. McCalla. On 7 April, the screw sloop USS Shenandoah arrived in Panama City and three days later, other American ships started...
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    years of sea service—spent in screw sloops-of-war USS Mohican and USS Shenandoah and the steamer USS Ranger, as then required before commissioning—Eberle...
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  • of the exploration aspect of the series was facilitated by the starship USS Defiant, which took over much of the runabouts' previous role in allowing...
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    Washington D.C.. He represented a wide variety of clients. In 1925, when the USS Shenandoah airship crashed, he was counsel for the widow of the ship's commander...
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    Commanding Officers". navsource.org. 2011. Retrieved 8 June 2012. "USS Shenandoah (AD-26) Commanding Officers". navsource.org. 2011. Archived from the...
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    experiment with rigid airships, constructing one of their own, the ZR-1 USS Shenandoah, and buying the R38 (based on the Zeppelin L 70) when the British airship...
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