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Goodyear-Zeppelin airship approaching the USS Patoka in the Port of Los Angeles, San Pedro, 1932

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Title: Goodyear-Zeppelin airship approaching the USS Patoka in the Port of Los Angeles, San Pedro, 1932
Date Created and/or Issued: February 23, 1932
1932-02-23
Publication Information: Los Angeles Times
Contributing Institution: UCLA, Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library
Collection: Los Angeles Times Photographic Archives
Rights Information: US
UCLA Library Special Collections, A1713 Charles E. Young Research Library, Box 951575, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575. Email: spec-coll@library.ucla.edu. Phone: (310) 825-4988
Description: Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds.
The Goodyear-Zeppelin airship (blimp) attempts to moor onto the Navy's fleet oiler the USS Patoka in the San Pedro Harbor. The airship, (blimp) had recently arrived in Southern California, where the mild climate was considered ideal for the weather-sensitive airship.
Related to the articles, “Blimp Volunteer Finds Mooring to Floating Mast at Harbor Easy,” Los Angeles Times, 24 Feb. 1932: A3, and “Ship Could Moor Zeppelin: Patoka, Equipped to Anchor Air Liner in Emergency, Has Received No Orders to be Prepared,” Los Angeles Times, 15 Oct. 1928: 2.
Text from the negative sleeve: United States Navy, Ships, Patoka Mooring Ship for Blimps
Handwritten on negative: U.S.S. Patoka
Type: image
Format: b&w nitrate negative
Identifier: uclamss_1429_4031
ark:/21198/zz002cprcx
Language: No linguistic content
Subject: Airships--American--California--Los Angeles
Ships--American--California--Los Angeles
Patoka (Fleet oiler)
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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