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Jun 28, 2016 · While the looters left very little in the way of a physical legacy of the Shenandoah, the airship was memorialized in 1925 by folk singer Vernon Dalhart with his mournful ballad “The Wreck of...
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Shenandoah Crash Site #1 in Buffalo Township, Ohio, where the control car landed Photo courtesy of Ohio Historic Preservation Office. The USS Shenandoah, the first rigid airship built in the United States and the first in the world to be inflated with helium, was a pioneer in the history of American airship aviation.
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The 680-foot-long USS Shenandoah was the pride of the U.S. Navy when christened in 1923. Its mission was to provide airborne surveillance for the fleet; to prove its capability, in 1924 the...
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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.
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- Shenandoah Crash Sites
Less than 24 hours into its flight "the strongest airship in the world" was caught in a thunderstorm, torn to pieces, and scattered across the rolling hills of Noble County in southeastern Ohio. Amazingly, 29 of its crew of 43 survived.
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On September 3, 1925, the USS Shenandoah, the first of three large rigid airships ever built in the USA, broke apart in a storm, and crashed to the ground near Ava, Ohio. Built just two years earlier, in Lakehurst New Jersey, the airship was 680 feet long, and held 2.1 million cubic feet of helium, nearly all that existed in the US at that time.
Sep 22, 2023 · The Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum will commemorate the USS Shenandoah with an online interactive experience that launches on October 10, 2023, to mark the centennial of the airship’s christening. (At the time, Shenandoah was believed to be a Native American word that means “Daughter of the Stars.”)
