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Photo # NH 92615: USS Shenandoah leaving the hangar for the first time, 1923

Online Library of Selected Images:
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USS Shenandoah (ZR-1), Airship 1923-1925 --
Ground Views at Lakehurst, New Jersey


This page features all the views we have of USS Shenandoah (ZR-1) on the ground at Naval Air Station Lakehurst, N.J.

For other images related to USS Shenandoah, see:

  • USS Shenandoah (ZR-1), Airship 1923-1925.


    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 44092

    USS Shenandoah (ZR-1)


    Inside the airship hangar at Naval Air Station Lakehurst, New Jersey. The date of the photograph appears to be 8 November 1923.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 111KB; 740 x 580 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 44093

    USS Shenandoah (ZR-1)


    Leaving the airship hangar at Naval Air Station Lakehurst, New Jersey. Probably photographed when she left the hangar for the first time, on 4 September 1923.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 151KB; 740 x 630 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 42036

    USS Shenandoah (ZR-1)


    Leaving the airship hangar at Naval Air Station Lakehurst, New Jersey. Probably photographed when she left the hangar for the first time, on 4 September 1923.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 112KB; 740 x 615 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 92615

    USS Shenandoah (ZR-1)


    Panoramic photograph of the airship leaving her hangar at Naval Air Station Lakehurst, New Jersey, for the first time. Though the print is dated October 1923, Shenandoah's initial departure from the hangar took place on 4 September 1923.
    Photographed by Clements, Washington, D.C..

    Courtesy of Mrs. Barnes.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 61KB; 1200 x 235 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 92614

    USS Shenandoah (ZR-1)


    Montage of five photographs, showing the airship leaving her mooring mast at Naval Air Station Lakehurst, New Jersey, circa November 1923 - January 1924.
    Photographed by Clements.

    Courtesy of Mrs. Barnes.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 57KB; 1200 x 270 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 82257

    USS Shenandoah (ZR-1)


    Attached to the mooring mast at Naval Air Station Lakehurst, New Jersey, circa November 1923 - January 1924.
    Photographed by Clements.

    Collection of Admiral Thomas C. Kinkaid, USN, 1973.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 84KB; 385 x 765 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 42028

    USS Shenandoah (ZR-1)


    Moored to the airship mast at Naval Air Station Lakehurst, New Jersey, circa November 1923 - January 1924.
    This is a halftone reproduction.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 93KB; 740 x 470 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 98227

    USS Shenandoah (ZR-1)


    Moored to the airship mast at Naval Air Station Lakehurst, New Jersey, circa 1924-1925.

    Donation of Dr. & Mrs. William James Morgan, 1988.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 72KB; 740 x 440 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 98228

    USS Shenandoah (ZR-1)


    Moored to the airship mast at Naval Air Station Lakehurst, New Jersey, circa 1924-1925.

    Donation of Dr. & Mrs. William James Morgan, 1988.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 66KB; 740 x 450 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 98229

    USS Shenandoah (ZR-1)


    Moored to the airship mast at Naval Air Station Lakehurst, New Jersey, circa 1924-1925.
    Note the retractable gangway running from Shenandoah's nose to the mast's upper platform.

    Donation of Dr. & Mrs. William James Morgan, 1988.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 67KB; 420 x 765 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 98230

    USS Shenandoah (ZR-1)


    Moored to the airship mast at Naval Air Station Lakehurst, New Jersey, circa 1924-1925.
    Note Shenandoah's five external engine cars and the various ports on the bottom of her hull.

    Donation of Dr. & Mrs. William James Morgan, 1988.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 66KB; 420 x 765 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 44094

    Naval Air Station Lakehurst, New Jersey


    An airplane lays a smokescreen near USS Shenandoah (ZR-1), which is moored to the station's airship mast. Possibly photographed during the NAS Lakehurst "Demonstration Day", 31 May 1924.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 67KB; 740 x 600 pixels

     

    For other images related to USS Shenandoah, see:

  • USS Shenandoah (ZR-1), Airship 1923-1925.


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


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