Members of the Navy Lakehurst Historical Society and American Legion Post 129 of Toms River gathered recently at the Cathedral of the Air located in Lakehurst to commemorate the 100th anniversary of ...

MARIETTA – Theresa Rayner, 57, of Ava has spent the majority of her adult life preserving the history of the ZR-1, also known as the USS Shenandoah. Along with her husband, Bryan Rayner who passed ...

Noble County, OH — The USS Shenandoah, a Navy rigid airship, was honored on its 100th anniversary with a ceremony at the Shenandoah Monument in Ava, Ohio. The event commemorated the tragic crash on ...

Lora Turner has always loved history, and now she is being recognized for bringing the town of Shenandoah's history to life.

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 ...

Three sailors aboard the destroyer tender USS Shenandoah were crushed to death Wednesday when about 20 panels of quarter-inch-thick metal toppled over on them, Navy officials said. Killed were Petty ...

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 ...

Ohio history curator Cliff Eckle shows us remnants from the USS Shenandoah crash site. After World War I, the U.S. Navy decided that rigid airships would be a useful defense tool to scout enemy ...