Wreck of the Shenandoah

Wreck of the Shenandoah (HMSBY)

Location: Pleasant City, OH 43772 Guernsey County
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Country: United States of America
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N 39° 54.346', W 81° 31.722'

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"Wind increasing in volume. Get no chance to...."

These were the last words from the doomed Navy airship Shenandoah, caught in a violent storm and crashing 7 miles southwest of this spot near Ava at dawn, September 3, 1925. Fourteen of its crew were killed. While souvenir hunters stripped the wreckage, a nation questioned the value of huge, rigid dirigibles, the last crashing in 1935. Smaller blimps replaced the dirigible as America's lighter-than-air sentinels of the sky.
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HM NumberHMSBY
Series This marker is part of the Ohio: Ohio Historical Society series
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Marker Number30-1
Year Placed1969
Placed ByThe Ohio Historical Society
Marker ConditionNo reports yet
Date Added Monday, October 20th, 2014 at 10:46am PDT -07:00
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UTM (WGS84 Datum)17S E 454808 N 4417432
Decimal Degrees39.90576667, -81.52870000
Degrees and Decimal MinutesN 39° 54.346', W 81° 31.722'
Degrees, Minutes and Seconds39° 54' 20.76" N, 81° 31' 43.32" W
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Area Code(s)740
Closest Postal AddressAt or near 10430 Vietnam Veterans Memorial Hwy, Pleasant City OH 43772, US
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