Goodyear-Zeppelin airship attempts to moor to the USS Patoka at the Port of Los Angeles, San Pedro, 1932

Title: Goodyear-Zeppelin airship attempts to moor to the USS Patoka at 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: Side view of the Navy's USS Patoka in the San Pedro Harbor as the Goodyear-Zeppelin airship (Blimp) attempts to moor.
Text from negative sleeve: United States Navy, Ships, Patoka Mooring Ship for Blimps
Handwritten on negative: U.S.S. Patoka
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.

Genre: news photographs
cellulose nitrate film
Names: Patoka (Fleet oiler)
Location: San Pedro (Los Angeles, Calif.)
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_4034
ARK: ark:/21198/zz002cprgg
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