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

Title: Goodyear-Zeppelin airship approaching the USS Patoka in the Port of Los Angeles, San Pedro, 1932
Date Created: February 23, 1932
Date: 1932-02-23
Publisher: Los Angeles Times
Language: No linguistic content
Collection: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description: 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.
Caption: Text from the negative sleeve: United States Navy, Ships, Patoka Mooring Ship for Blimps
Handwritten on negative: U.S.S. Patoka

Genre: cellulose nitrate film
news photographs
Names: Patoka (Fleet oiler)
Location: San Pedro (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Longitude: 33.704082
Latitude: -118.217951
Resource type: still image
Subjects: Airships--American--California--Los Angeles
Ships--American--California--Los Angeles

Repository: University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
Local Identifier: uclamss_1429_4031
ARK: ark:/21198/zz002cprcx
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