Date:	Sunday 18 July 1943
Time:	23:53
Type:	Goodyear ZNP-K
Owner/operator:	United States Navy (USN)
Registration:	K-74
MSN:	BuNo. 30196
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 1 / Occupants: 10
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed
Location:	Straits of Florida, FL -   United States of America
Phase:	Combat
Nature:	Military
Departure airport:	NAS Richmond, FL
Destination airport:

Narrative:
BUNO 30196, K-74. The 250-foot long, Goodyear-built K-74 became the only US blimp shot down in the war. K-74 of the Navy's Unit ZP-21, launched from NAS Richmond, FL, detected the surfaced German U-boat U-134 on radar in the Straits of Florida at 2340 on 18 July 1943. K-74 was hit by U-134's machine gun fire during its 55-knot approach to attack the German U-134. It lost control and crashed into the sea.

1. [LINK NOT WORKING ANYMORE:http://www.uboatarchive.net/U-134ZP21ASW-6Report.htm]
2. Vaeth, J. Gordon (August 1979). Incident in the Florida Straits. United States Naval Institute Proceedings
3. https://www.uboat.net/boats/u134.htm
4. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K-class_blimp

Date/time	Contributor	Updates
23-Apr-2010 22:41	jdanthony	Added
16-Feb-2012 00:19	Nepa	Updated [Time, Operator, Source]
11-May-2015 02:10	angels one five	Updated [Time, Registration, Cn, Operator, Narrative]
20-Mar-2022 04:51	Ron Averes	Updated [Operator, Location, Source]