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.

USS Shenandoah (AD-44) was the fourth and final ship of the Yellowstone-class of destroyer tenders. AD-44 was the fifth ship to bear the name, USS Shenandoah as named for the Shenandoah Valley. She was commissioned in 1983, only three years after the decommissioning of the previous USS Shenandoah, also a destroyer tender.

Four United States Navy ships, including one rigid airship, and one ship of the Confederate States of America, have been named Shenandoah, after the Shenandoah River of western Virginia and West Virginia.

The official crew website for USS Shenandoah (AD 44) is a full-featured, high-tech, animated, interactive tribute to the ship, crew and adopted families from the Shenandoah Valley and Shenandoah National Park for which she was named.

The airship U.S.S. Shenandoah was the first American built rigid airship. Although built in the United States, Shenandoah was based on the design of the German L-49, a World War I high altitude bomber which had been forced down intact in …

Built between 1922 and 1923, the USS Shenandoah (ZR-1) was the first of four rigid airships constructed for the US Navy at the cost of $2.9 million. At 680 feet long, the Shenandoah was 488 longer than today’s Goodyear blimp.

Photograph of a northward view of the United States Navy dirigible USS Shenandoah over Long Beach, ca.1920. The large rigid airship is in the sky at center, headed to the left. It is a long, light-colored, rigid, blimp-like vehicle with engine pods slung underneath.

2012年12月8日 · The USS Shenandoah was the U.S. Navy's first rigid airship, essentially a metal frame covered with a fabric skin and filled with helium. The craft's design was based on a captured World War I German dirigible, improved upon by American engineers.

2024年9月4日 · The USS Shenandoah, a U.S. Navy rigid airship or dirigible, first took to the skies on Sep. 4, 1923. It was a huge thing, 680 feet long, powered by 6 Packard gasoline engines.

Shenandoah, the first rigid airship built in the U.S., represented the Navy’s inaugural effort with large, rigid-type airships. Essentially a copy of a WWI Zeppelin, Shenandoah represented a stepping stone to more modern ships.