Rigid airships had a short and perilous career in the Navy. From 1921 to 1935, five lighter-than-air giants sailed the skies and then suffered catastrophic structural failures or were scrapped. Yet in ...

It was 100 years ago this week – way back in 1924, in the thick of the early roaring days of aviation history – when a giant U.S. Navy airship visited the Puget Sound and took the population by storm.

One hundred years after the first U.S. Navy airship took to the skies, zeppelins and blimps are poised to make a comeback Mark Piesing The USS Shenandoah leaves its hangar at the Lakehurst Naval Air ...

The Shenandoah, a 65-foot purse seiner built in 1924, is being restored by shipwrights and volunteers at the Harbor History Museum. Along the way, they’ve found some fascinating artifacts left behind ...

It was the biggest man-made object to ever fill the skies of Tacoma, and even Babe Ruth couldn’t compete with it. On Oct. 18, 1924, a 680-foot long silver airship appeared in the skies of the South ...

CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. This single-item collection consists of an invitation to the christening of the US Navy airship ZR-1 USS Shenandoah at NAS Lakehurst, New Jersey, ...

Theresa Rayner has lived in Noble County her whole life. She said not much happens in the rural unincorporated community of Ava. But, one morning, a century ago, it felt like the center of the ...

CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. The USS ZR-1 Shenandoah was the first American-built rigid airship to use helium; the first to use water recovery apparatus for the continuous ...