USS Shenandoah Map Tour - Start

October 7, 1924 —The USS Shenandoah casts off from Lakehurst Naval Air Station at 10 a.m., passing over Camden, the Delaware River, Wilmington, Chester, the Susquehanna River, Havre de Grace, Baltimore, Washington, D.C., and Charlottesville in the evening and Spartanburg at midnight. Rear Admiral William A. Moffet wrote:

"At 10:00am the ship cast off from the mooring mast and started on her long flight for Camp Lewis, Washington, near Tacoma, nearly 5000 miles away. There were comparatively few people to see her off, the Shenandoah having become more or less a matter of routine at Lakehurst and in that neighborhood. There was a spirit of confidence amounting to elation on the part of Captain Lansdowne, officers and men, as we cast off."