MACON, Ga. — On Wednesday, a piece of Macon history was "shipped" across town to a new home. A model of the USS Macon ship was moved from City Hall to the Macon Mall Wednesday morning, to sit outside ...

When reminiscing about the USS Macon, former Petty Officer 1st Class Ted Parker remembers one thing: “For a lot of us, it was the best ship we’ve ever been on,” he said. More than 40 former shipmates ...

MONTEREY BAY >> Crew members aboard the exploration ship Nautilus on Tuesday used a remotely operated vehicle to relocate and photograph the historic wreckage of the USS Macon, a 785-foot airship that ...

MONTEREY BAY – Crew members aboard the exploration ship Nautilus on Tuesday used a remotely operated vehicle to relocate and photograph the historic wreckage of the USS Macon, a 785-foot airship that ...

Four years after an unprecedented underwater exploration of the wreck of the USS Macon, the massive dirigible”s watery grave off the Big Sur coast in the Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary has ...

Called the “Queen of the Skies,” the doomed airship was an incredible sight. The USS Macon, its engines thrumming against the prevailing northwest wind, was headed to the Bay Area. Evening winter sun ...

The military zeppelin USS Macon was meant to be a floating American aircraft carrier over the Pacific Ocean -- but it crashed, sank and has been lying on the ocean floor for more than 70 years. Now ...

Meant to be a flying aircraft carrier over the Pacific, the USS Macon sank in the ocean and remained there undiscovered for 70 years. This rough photomontage was compiled from several thousand ...