Sub Rescues Disabled Airship. USS Sea Poacher (SS-406) tows a disabled ZX-11 airship during a 22 hour rescue which started out as a training attack by the airship on the submarine. July 1952 [2844 x 2348]
>Coming in at low altitude, the airship’s propellers hit the surface of the ocean rendering it powerless. The submarine, commanded by Commander William Gibbson, attached the cable to the airship’s mooring line and started towing it toward Boca Chica Naval Air Station (Key West, FL). Closer to shore an air-sea rescue boat completed the towing job.
KapitanKurt
>Coming in at low altitude, the airship’s propellers hit the surface of the ocean rendering it powerless. The submarine, commanded by Commander William Gibbson, attached the cable to the airship’s mooring line and started towing it toward Boca Chica Naval Air Station (Key West, FL). Closer to shore an air-sea rescue boat completed the towing job.
Olaf_the_Notsosure
Wow. Didn’t know they still used airships in 52.