Fact #93118
When:
Short story:
Fourteen crew members are killed and two injured when the United
States Navy dirigible airship Shenandoah, commanded by
Lieutenant Commander Zachary Lansdowne, is wrecked in a storm
near Caldwell, Ohio, USA, while flying from Lakehurst, New
Jersey, to St. Louis. Later in the same year, popular singer
Vernon Dalhart will
tell the sorry tale in his recording of The Wreck Of The
Shenandoah.
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