'U.S. [Navy] Airship Los Angeles [ZR-3] moored to ship first time. The U.S.S. Patoka, first U.S. Navy dirigible tender, steaming up Chesapeake Bay from Baltimore with the U.S. Los Angeles, lastest addition to the U.S. air fleet, moored to its mast. It was the first ship-mooring test of the former ZR-3 and lasted 55 minutes, being curtailed because of storm warning, January 16, 1925'...Credit: unknown (Smithsonian Institution)
Wednesday 25 June 2008
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ZR-3 was the longest lived rigid airship. She was built in 1923-4 in Germany as war-debt compensation (the Allies received 2nd hand airships)and originally named LZ-126. ZR-3 was grounded in 1932 for economy reasons (the Akron and Macon were coming into the fleet), but not dismantled until 1940.
One wonders how the Pacific War might have proceeded with the long-range scouting cability of aircraft carrying rigids (assuming the Japanese codes were not cracked).
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