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The airship was christened on 10 October 1923 by Marion Bartlett Thurber, wife of the Secretary of the Navy, and commissioned on the same day. Mrs. Denby named the airship after her home in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia, and the word "shenandoah" was said to be a Native American word meaning "daughter of stars".
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
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.
He earned the Navy Cross for his participation in the first transoceanic airship flight while assigned to the British R34 in 1919. He later commanded 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.
Shenandoah County, Virginia, a county in the state of Virginia; Shenandoah River, a river in Virginia and West Virginia; Shenandoah Valley, the valley through which the aforementioned river runs; Shenandoah Valley AVA, an American Viticultural Area in Virginia and West Virginia; Shenandoah Mountain, a mountain ridge in Virginia and West Virginia
U.S. Navy airship D-6, A-5972, burns in its NAS Rockaway hangar, along with airships C-10 and H-1, and the kite balloon A-P. 21 February 1922 U.S. Army airship Roma (ex-Italian T34) hits power lines in Virginia and burns out following rudder failure, killing 34 of 45 on board. 34 8 17 October 1922
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.