USS Shenandoah Crash – Officers and Crew
A list of the officers and crew aboard USS Shenandoah when the ship crashed in Ohio on September 3, 1925. The names of those killed in the crash are in red.
Six survivors of the Shenandoah were lost in the wreck of USS Akron in 1933; two survived the crash of USS Macon in 1935.
OFFICERS
Zachary Lansdowne in control car of USS Shenandoah
Lt. Cdr. Zachary Lansdowne, Commanding
Lt. Cdr. Louis Hancock
Lt. Cdr. Charles E. Rosendahl [biography]
Lt. J. B. Lawrence
Lt. Arthur R. Houghton
Lt. Roland G. Mayer
Lt. Edgar W. Sheppard
Lieutenant Charles E. Bauch
Lt. Thomas C. Henley
Lt. J. Bruce Anderson
WO Raymond Cole, Radio Officer
Chief Machinist Shine Spottswood Halliburton
Col. Chalmers G. Hall, U.S. Army Air Service
Walter Richardson (Lt. USNR, Civilian Photographer)
ENLISTED
William H. Spratley
Louis E. Allely (Aviation Chief Rigger)
Everett P. Allen (Aviation Chief Rigger)
G. W. Armour (Radioman)
Henry A. Ballard (AMM2c | Avn. Mach. Mate 2d) [Died aboard USS Akron]
Henry L. Boswell (Rigger, First Class) [Died aboard USS Akron]
Charles H. Broome (AMM1c | Avn. Mach. Mate 1st)
James W. Cullinan (Aviation Pilot)
Arthur E. Carlson (Aviation Chief Rigger) [Died aboard USS Akron]
Lester Coleman (ACMM | Avn. Chf. Mach. Mate)
James H. Collier (Aviation Chief Rigger)
Mark Donovan (CBM | Chief Boatswain’s Mate)
John J. Hahn (SC1c | Ships Cook 1st)
Benjamin O. Hereth (AMM1c | Avn. Mach. Mate 1st)
Ralph T. Joffray, St. Louis, Aviation Rigger, First Class.
Walter Johnson (ACMM | Avn. Chf. Mach. Mate)
Ralph Jones (AMM1c | Avn. Mach. Mate 1st)
Julius Eugene Malak (AMM2c | Avn. Mach. Mate 2d) [USS Macon survivor]
Franklyn E. Masters (Airship Pilot)
Celestino P. Mazzucco (AMM1c | Avn. Mach. Mate 1st)
John F. Mccarthy (Aviation Chief Rigger)
James A. Moore, Jr. (AMM1c | Avn. Mach. Mate 1st)
Bartholomew H. O’Sullivan (AMM1c | Avn. Mach. Mate 1st)
Frank L. Peckham (Aviation Chief Rigger)
August C. Quernheim (AMM1c | Avn. Mach. Mate 1st) [Died aboard USS Akron]
William A. Russell (ACMM | Avn. Chf. Mach. Mate) [Died aboard USS Akron]
George C. Schnitzer (CRM | Chief Radioman)
Joseph Shevlowitz (AMM1c | Avn. Mach. Mate 1st) [Died aboard USS Akron]
Charles Solar (AMM1c | Avn. Mach. Mate 1st) [USS Macon survivor]
William H. Spratley (AMM1c | Avn. Mach. Mate 1st)
Frederick J. Tobin (CBM, Airship Pilot)
Richardson Wilson (Sea2c | Seaman Second Class)
USS Shenandoah, with (l to r) Zachary Lansdowne, William Moffett, Maurice Pierce, J. H. Deem, Chalmers Hall
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Note: Aviation Rigger Louis E. Allely did not die in the crash. He was my great uncle and I enjoyed his company many times ove the years. My grandfather actually picked him up at the crash site and took him home to Worthington, O. He had been granted a immediate leave for a few days to recover. Things were a little less formal in those days.
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Gil,
This picture shows Uncle Maurice R Pierce (mother’s uncle). He was commander of the airship USS Los Angeles. He was the husband of mother’s aunt Cecilia.
Let me know if you don’t get the picture and I’ll give you the website.
Chriss
Geeez, Gil, Brian Wilson—you know…the Beach Boy!
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