This page features views of USS Patoka (AO-9, later AV-6) with dirigibles flying nearby or moored to her mast.
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Photo #: NH 98162 USS Patoka (AO-9) In a harbor, with the airship Shenandoah (ZR-1) overhead, circa 1924. Courtesy of the Naval Historical Foundation. Collection of Harriet A. Harris, USN(NC)-Retired. Donated by Mrs. J.B. Redfield, 1961. U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph. Online Image: 92KB; 740 x 585 pixels |
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Photo #: NH 57994 USS Shenandoah (ZR-1) Moored to USS Patoka (AO-9), circa 1924 . Courtesy of the Naval Historical Foundation. U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph. Online Image: 82KB; 740 x 475 pixels |
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Photo #: NH 98163 USS Shenandoah (ZR-1) Moored to USS Patoka (AO-9), circa 1924. Courtesy of the Naval Historical Foundation. Collection of Harriet A. Harris, USN(NC)-Retired. Donated by Mrs. J.B. Redfield, 1961. U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph. Online Image: 102KB; 740 x 595 pixels |
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Photo #: NH 98222 USS Shenandoah (ZR-1) Moored to USS Patoka (AO-9), circa 1924-1925. Collection of the Society of Sponsors of the United States Navy. U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph. Online Image: 109KB; 740 x 590 pixels |
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Photo #: NH 63069 USS Los Angeles (ZR-3) Moored to USS Patoka (AO-9), off Panama during Fleet Problem XII, February 1931. U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph. Online Image: 100KB; 740 x 580 pixels |
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Photo #: NH 65301 USS Los Angeles (ZR-3) Moored to USS Patoka (AO-9) off Panama during Fleet Problem XII, circa February 1931. Note line dropped from the airship's after section to the water. Donation of Franklin Moran, 1967. U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph. Online Image: 74KB; 740 x 605 pixels |
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Photo #: NH 73285 USS Los Angeles (ZR-3) Moored to USS Patoka (AO-9), off Panama during Fleet Problem XII, circa February 1931. U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph. Online Image: 72KB; 740 x 600 pixels |
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Photo #: NH 76379 USS Los Angeles (ZR-3) Moored to USS Patoka (AO-9), circa 1925-1932. A passenger steamship is passing by at left. Courtesy of Donald M. McPherson, 1972. U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph. Online Image: 55KB; 740 x 425 pixels |
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Photo #: NH 65300 USS Los Angeles (ZR-3) (center distance) Moored to USS Patoka (AO-9) off Panama during Fleet Problem XII, circa February 1931. USS Lexington (CV-2), at right, and a battleship are also present. Donation of Franklin Moran, 1967. U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph. Online Image: 85KB; 740 x 615 pixels |
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Photo #: 80-G-462136 USS Los Angeles (ZR-3) Flies over ships of the U.S. Fleet, circa 1930. Photographed from on board the airship, with two of her engine cars in the foreground. Ships below are USS Patoka (AO-9), closest to the camera, and the aircraft carriers Lexington (CV-2) and Saratoga (CV-3). Official U.S. Navy Photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives. Online Image: 92KB; 740 x 605 pixels Reproductions of this image may also be available through the National Archives photographic reproduction system. |
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In addition to the images presented above, the National Archives appears to hold other views of USS Patoka with airships nearby or moored to her mast. The following list features some of these images:
The images listed below are NOT in
the Naval Historical Center's collections.
DO NOT try to obtain them using the procedures described in our
page "How to Obtain Photographic Reproductions".
The airship Shenandoah (ZR-1) moored to USS Patoka (AO-9) on 8 August 1924. High aerial view, taken from off Patoka's stern, with Shenandoah trailing off to the ship's starboard side. The airship, which is seen nearly in port broadside aspect, is only partially visible: her tail is cropped out of the view. The airship Shenandoah (ZR-1) moored to USS Patoka (AO-9) on 9 August 1924. Surface view, taken from off Patoka's port quarter, with Shenandoah trailing off directly toward the camera. The airship is seen from nearly directly astern, and from below.
Reproductions of these images should be available through the National Archives photographic reproduction system for pictures not held by the Naval Historical Center. The images listed in this box are NOT in the Naval Historical Center's collections. DO NOT try to obtain them using the procedures described in our page "How to Obtain Photographic Reproductions". |
For more views related to this ship, see:
If you want higher resolution reproductions than the digital images presented here, see: "How to Obtain Photographic Reproductions." |
Page made 6 November 2002
New images added 1 December 2002