Word: macon
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Macon Aweigh...
...high-school pupils blared "Dixie." From the dock offices athwart the bow of the airship marched Mrs. Jeannette Whitton Moffett, mother of two Naval flyers with her spry 63-year-old husband Rear Admiral William Adger Moffett. With them came Goodyear-Zeppelin officials & wives, Mayor G. Glen Toole of Macon, Ga., eight beauteous Macon girls heavily bundled against the northern chill...
...band changed to "Anchors Aweigh." There were speeches. On behalf of his city Mayor Toole presented to Commander Alger Herman Dresel a silver service for the ship's wardroom.* Someone handed Mrs. Moffett a red-white-&-blue cord suspended from the airship. Declaiming "I christen thee Macon!", she yanked the cord. Two hatches in the underside of the Macon's snout flopped open, spilling out 48 alarmed pigeons which flapped excitedly about the dock. Thirty-four of the birds then streaked through the aperture of the great orange-peel doors. Outside, two of them (Miss Macon & Miss Georgia...
Release of the pigeons signalled the climax of the ceremony. While Commander Dresel, his 50 officers & crew stood at salute, Erection Foreman V. W. ("Red") Coffelt ordered "Up ship!" His workmen slacked off their cables, let the Macon's partial load of helium buoy her into the air some five feet. Another command and she was hauled down again, made fast. The Navy's second airship scouting cruiser had taken the air. She will remain in the dock a few weeks more for finishing touches...
...Ship. Third U. S. Naval vessel to bear the name,* the Macon is identical to her sister Akron in dimensions and general structure. Most important changes are invisible, e. g. saving of some 8,000 Ib. under the Akron's weight by improvement of engine mountings, electrical installations, gas cells; and increase of maximum speed to 74 knots (the Akron's is 70) by better propellers, better streamlining...