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Karen Scanlon

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San Diego’s maritime treasure leaving for Michigan

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By Karen Scanlon, Kim Fahlen
| Times of San Diego Verified
SAN DIEGO – A five-ton lantern room from the former Ballast Point Lighthouse stands on Old Town’s Congress Street. But not for long! Come summer, the 1889 relic will be trucked to Michigan. “That is true!” was the emphatic response from its new owner, Jeff Shook of Fenton, Michigan, founder and president of the Michigan Lighthouse Conservancy. “When our winter weather breaks, it’ll be on its way.
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Remembering the Shenandoah, the Navy’s first rigid airship Original

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By Karen Scanlon
| Military Times Verified
On Sept. 3, 1925, the airship ShenandoahZR-1 — translated to “daughter of the stars” — crashed in three sections over Noble County, Ohio. Designated by the U.S. Navy as an aircraft for use in long distance reconnaissance missions, the Shenandoah was one of five naval airships that sparked excitement within both the military and civilians alike. Seen at the time as the future of aviation, these airships, however, had short and perilous careers.
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Recalling the short and perilous career of U.S. naval airships

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By Karen Scanlon
| The San Diego Union-Tribune Verified
“Had the real operational story been known — the handicaps imposed by weather, the fact that scouting missions were flown on no more than one day in four, the uncertainty of navigation — it may be wondered if the Americans would have undertaken what in the end proved to be a losing endeavor.” — Douglas Robinson, “Up Ship!” Germany’s use of the terrifying, bomb-dropping zeppelins slipped over England’s unprotected cities in little-known aerial battles of the Great War.
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