Word: docks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Four years later to the day after his first arrival Dr. Eckener landed again at Lakehurst, this time in command of the LZ-127 (Graf Zeppelin). His ship moored fast, Dr. Eckener left it to the horde of sightseers, sauntered across the floor of the dock, beamed up at the LZ-126, long since renamed. Eyes brimming, he muttered: "Das ist mein schatz" ("That's my baby...
Early one morning last week in the same dock a crew of 79 bluejackets ranged themselves abreast the same ship. Among them were two machinists' mates who had been in her crew since November 1924 when she was christened U. S. S. Los Angeles by Mrs. Calvin Coolidge. Commander Fred T. Berry, master, read aloud orders from a paper. Capt. Harry E. Shoemaker, commander of the station, did likewise. Then up stepped an orderly who hauled down the commission flag, a long, thin pennant which hung beneath the Los Angeles' snout. The training ship Los Angeles...
...last week could read the Los Angeles' future. From dead storage she could be recommissioned in 30 days. Her crew will doubtless be assigned to the U. S. S. Macon, the metal framework of which was completed last week in the Goodyear-Zeppelin dock at Akron, Ohio while a delegation from Macon, Ga. waved flags. The Navy has been approached by prospective purchasers of the Los Angeles (prominently mentioned: Chicago World's Fair) but manifests no desire to consign the ship to unpracticed hands...
...Being treated in 1925 for what Commander Rosendahl called "airship measles, intestinal disorders and even broken bones"; having to stay in dock for months after she was repaired because the Shenandoah had crashed, losing their joint supply of helium...
Died. John Hunter, 26, one of the four brothers who set a world's airplane refueling endurance record of 553 hr. 41 min. 30 sec. in 1930; by decapitation; in Rosedale, Miss. Attempting to untie his amphibian plane from a dock, Flyer Hunter was struck by the propeller...