USS Shenandoah airship - photo

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Very nice photograph - Thank You.

After World War I the United States Navy began a rigid airship program,
resulting in the construction of FIVE vessels, one of which is less well known.

ZR-1 - USS Shendandoah; built at Lakehurst Naval Air Station, New Jersey;
completed in September, 1923; Broke up in a storm over Ava, Ohio,
on 3 September, 1925; 14 lives lost of the 43 aboard.

ZR-2 - R-38; a British-built airship; completed 1921; Broke up during trials over
Hull, crashed in the Humber estuary on 24 August, 1921; 44 lives lost of
the 49 aboard (16 U.S. Navy personnel lost out of 17 aboard).

ZR-3 - USS Los Angeles; the German LZ-126, built at Friedrichshafen, Germany as
war reparations; completed 1924; Scrapped by U. S. Navy in 1939.

ZRS-4 - USS Akron; built by the Goodyear-Zeppelin Corporation, Akron, Ohio;
completed August, 1931; Broke up in a storm off Barnegat, New Jersey,
4 April, 1933; 73 lives lost of the 76 on board.

ZRS-5 - USS Macon; built by the Goodyear-Zeppelin Corporation, Akron, Ohio;
completed 1933; Broke up in a storm off Point Sur, California,
12 February, 1935; 2 lives lost of the 83 on board.