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Photo # NH 84567: USS Los Angeles rises to near-vertical position, while moored on 25 August 1927

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USS Los Angeles (ZR-3), Airship 1924-1939 --
Ground Views


This page features all the views we have of USS Los Angeles (ZR-3) while on the ground.

For more views of USS Los Angeles, see:

  • USS Los Angeles (ZR-3), Airship 1924-1939.


    If you want higher resolution reproductions than the digital images presented here, see: "How to Obtain Photographic Reproductions."

    Click on the small photograph to prompt a larger view of the same image.

    Photo #: NH 91149

    Airship LZ-126


    Enters the airship hangar at Naval Air Station Lakehurst, New Jersey, for the first time after her flight across the Atlantic from Germany, 15 October 1924. Following delivery to the U.S. Navy, she became USS Los Angeles (ZR-3).
    Panoramic photograph by Clements.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 55KB; 1200 x 215 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 63068

    USS Los Angeles (ZR-3)


    On the ground at Naval Air Station Lakehurst, New Jersey, circa 1924-1932.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 94KB; 740 x 555 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 84566

    USS Los Angeles (ZR-3)


    Begins her out-of-control rise to near-vertical position, while moored at the high mast at Naval Air Station Lakehurst, New Jersey, at about 1:30 PM on 25 August 1927.
    This incident, which resulted from the sudden arrival of a cold air front that lifted the airship's tail, causing it to rise before she could swing around the mast parallel to the new wind direction. Los Angeles suffered only minor damage, but the affair demonstrated the risks involved with high mooring masts.

    Courtesy of Richard K. Smith, author of the book "The Airships Akron & Macon", 1974.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 104KB; 595 x 765 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 84567

    USS Los Angeles (ZR-3)


    Rising out-of-control rise to a near-vertical position, while moored at the high mast at Naval Air Station Lakehurst, New Jersey, shortly after 1:30 PM on 25 August 1927.
    This incident, which resulted from the sudden arrival of a cold air front that lifted the airship's tail, causing it to rise before she could swing around the mast parallel to the new wind direction. Los Angeles suffered only minor damage, but the affair demonstrated the risks involved with high mooring masts.

    Courtesy of Richard K. Smith, author of the book "The Airships Akron & Macon", 1974.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 84KB; 590 x 765 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 84568

    USS Los Angeles (ZR-3)


    In a near-vertical position, after her tail rose out-of-control while she was moored at the high mast at Naval Air Station Lakehurst, New Jersey, shortly after 1:30 PM on 25 August 1927.
    This incident, which resulted from the sudden arrival of a cold air front that lifted the airship's tail, causing it to rise before she could swing around the mast parallel to the new wind direction. Los Angeles suffered only minor damage, but the affair demonstrated the risks involved with high mooring masts.

    Courtesy of Richard K. Smith, author of the book "The Airships Akron & Macon", 1974.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 32KB; 600 x 765 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 84569

    USS Los Angeles (ZR-3)


    Begins to drift back down from a near-vertical position, after her out-of-control rise while moored at the high mast at Naval Air Station Lakehurst, New Jersey, shortly after 1:30 PM on 25 August 1927.
    This incident, which resulted from the sudden arrival of a cold air front that lifted the airship's tail, causing it to rise before she could swing around the mast parallel to the new wind direction. Los Angeles suffered only minor damage, but the affair demonstrated the risks involved with high mooring masts.

    Courtesy of Richard K. Smith, author of the book "The Airships Akron & Macon", 1974.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 39KB; 595 x 765 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 98378

    USS Los Angeles (ZR-3)


    At Naval Air Station Lakehurst, New Jersey, 1928.
    Photographed by Rell Clements Jr.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 83KB; 740 x 505 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 69168

    German Dirigible Graf Zeppelin (LZ-127)
    (at right)

    In the airship hangar at Naval Air Station Lakehurst, New Jersey. Photo is dated 7 August 1929.
    Also in the hangar is USS Los Angeles (ZR-3), which had been built in Germany as Zeppelin airship LZ-126.

    Courtesy of the San Francisco Maritime Museum, 1969.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 99KB; 740 x 610 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 42025

    USS Los Angeles (ZR-3)


    Is towed from the airship hangar at Naval Air Station Lakehurst, New Jersey, by the Station's mobile mooring mast, circa the early 1930s.

    Received from the Navy Recruiting Bureau, New York, 1932.

    Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the Collection of the Naval Historical Center.

    Online Image: 118KB; 740 x 560 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 44075

    Navy Lighter-Than-Air Craft


    At Naval Air Station Lakehurst, New Jersey, during what appears to be a demonstration, circa 1930-1931. Among the craft present are: a kite balloon (upper craft at left), five free balloons, USS Los Angeles (ZR-3) in the middle distance, two J-class blimps (among them J-4) in the center, and blimp ZMC-2 at right.

    Photograph was received from the Navy Recruiting Bureau, New York, 1932.

    Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the Collections of the Naval Historical Center.

    Online Image: 78KB; 740 x 600 pixels

     

    For more views of USS Los Angeles, see:

  • USS Los Angeles (ZR-3), Airship 1924-1939.


    If you want higher resolution reproductions than the digital images presented here, see: "How to Obtain Photographic Reproductions."


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    Page made 30 October 2002
    New image added 12 March 2003