Airship Collection (#5)

Destruction of first German airship on British soil, WW1
Destruction of the first German airship on British soil during the First World War, on 3 September 1916 at Cuffley near Enfield. 1916

British naval airships scouting for underwater craft, WW1
British naval airships scouting for underwater craft, First World War. 1914-1918

Lady Hay Drummond-Hay
Grace Marguerite, Lady Hay Drummond-Hay (1895 - 1946), British journalist, who was the first woman to travel around the world by air (in a zeppelin). 1930

Birthday postcard, puppy and toys in an airship, with verse below. Date: early 20th century

Italia airship, flying over the North Pole
Italia, a semi-rigid airship which flew over the North Pole and crashed in 1928. 1928

First 4 HP Daimler engine for an airship

Victor G Ginn catalogue, Novelty Balloons and Airships. 1939

Naval images of our Allies, by Bert Thomas, WW1
Naval images of our Allies, by Bert Thomas, First World War. Showing aircraft, an armoured car, guns, and British, French, Belgian and Russian naval troops. circa 1914

Zeppelin airship shot down, Southfields, WW1
Zeppelin (Schutte-Lanz) airship shot down by Captain William Leefe Robinson VC, as seen through a telescope from Southfields, 3 September 1916, First World War. Painting by Walter Hunt. 1916

R101 as the air ministers office, 1929
R101 as the air ministers office: the second flight of Britains giant airship. Meteorological offices at Cardington; air minister Lord Thomson about to ascend the mooring mast of the R101 by

A British naval airship coming in to land after a long flight. Date: 1916

Enormous public interest in the Graf Zeppelin at the time of her cruise over London, the crowd round the airship on her arrival at Hanworth. Date: 1931

Graf Zeppelin leaving Friedrichshafen and appearing over Hanworth Aerodrome on the same day, cruised over Central London, watched by thousands from the ground. Date: 1931

United States Navy - USS Shenandoah - ZR-1
United States Navy - USS Shenandoah (ZR-1), the first of four United States Navy rigid airships overflying a city. Shenandoah was constructed during 1922-1923 at Lakehurst Naval Air Station

United States Navy - USS Macon - ZRS-5
United States Navy - USS Macon (ZRS-5) rigid airship built and operated by the United States Navy for scouting and served as a flying aircraft carrier, designed to carry biplane parasite aircraft

Curtiss Wind Wagon - Glenn Curtiss and Thomas Scott Baldwin
Glenn Curtiss sat in one of his Wind Wagons with Thomas Scott Baldwin. Curtiss wind wgons and ice-boats were used by Thomas Scott Baldwin ( Captain Baldwin, no relation to the A.E.A.s F. W)

Curtiss Wind Wagon with Glenn Curtiss
Glenn Curtiss sat in one of his Wind Wagons, used by Thomas Scott Baldwin ( Captain Baldwin, no relation to the A.E.A.s F. W)

French airship Capitaine Marchal gondola
The gondola of French airship Capitaine Marchal, built by Lebaudy Freres andnamed in honour of the deceased commander of La Republique, which had crashed in 1909. Date: circa 1910

USN - Richmond Naval Air Station after Hurricane Nine - 1945
United States Navy - Richmond Naval Air Station (Richmond NAS), just west of Miami, showing the destroyed, huge, airship hangars which burnt down during Hurricane Nine on 15 September 1945

His Majestys Airship R34. Built by by William Beardmore and Company in Inchinnan, Renfrewshire, Scotland, R34 first flew on 14 March 1919

Schutte-Lanz S. L. 1 rigid airship
Schutte-Lanz SL.1 rigid airship, designed and Built by the Schutte-Lanz company, set-up by Johann Schutte and Karl Lanz. The SL.1 was Built largely from wood with a geodesic framework

The first German air-raid by three Zeppelins, dropped bombs in Yarmouth, Kings Lynn and near the royal estate at Sandringham in Norfolk, wreaking buildings and killing civilians

LZ 127 Graf Zeppelin - At Mooring Mast
LZ 127 Graf Zeppelin (Deutsches Luftschiff Zeppelin #127; Registration: D-LZ 127) was a German-built and -operated, passenger-carrying, hydrogen-filled

Victoria Cross - Lieutenant William Leefe Robinson (1895-1918) (Royal Flying Corp) - awarded for most conspicuous bravery

Zeppelin destroyed over Britain 1916
The ruins of a zeppelin destroyed over Britain, near London. Date: 2 September 1916

Zeppelin raid on London 1915
Drawing appeared in a German paper showing the latest German zeppelin air-raid over Tower Bridge, London, over night. Date: 17 August 1915

St Ouen Station, Paris, France
Saint Ouen Station (Clement Bayard), a characteristic suburban station on the Ceinture line which runs round Paris, in the avenue de Saint-Ouen, 17th arrondissement. Date: circa 1905

MODEL AIRSHIP 1887
A model airship moves when its propeller turns. Date: 1887

CLEMENCEAU IN PATRIE
Clemenceau and general Picquart - the defender of Dreyfus, now minister for war - make an ascent in the military airship Patrie at Chalons military camp. Date: August 1907

LZ 127 GRAF ZEPPELIN
The LZ-127 Graf Zeppelin makes its test flight Date: October 1928

JOHN BULL AIRSHIP THREAT
John Bull feels under threat from airships and other new flight craft Date: 1908

ELECTRIC AIRSHIP
Frank Reade and his New Electric Air Ship, the Eclipse - a dramatic scene as the wonderful aircraft deals with the Yellow Peril Date: 1892

RAIN TO ORDER
A farmer directs the rain- making airship to where he wants his crops watered Date: 1926

GRAF VON ZEPPELIN
GRAF FERDINAND VON ZEPPELIN Airship Pioneer Date: 1838 - 1917

Sempill British Aviation Mission to Japan
Holding down Airship. William Francis Forbes-Sempill, 19th Lord Sempill AFC, AFRAeS (1893-1965) was a Scottish peer and record-breaking air pioneer who was later shown to have passed secret

Sempill British Aviation Mission to Japan
S.S. Type Airship. William Francis Forbes-Sempill, 19th Lord Sempill AFC, AFRAeS (1893-1965) was a Scottish peer and record-breaking air pioneer who was later shown to have passed secret information

Sempill British Aviation Mission to Japan
Airship Sheds under erection. William Francis Forbes-Sempill, 19th Lord Sempill AFC, AFRAeS (1893-1965) was a Scottish peer

WW1 - A German propaganda view (unlike this image, the crews of all seven aircraft survived the raid!) of the aerial and naval combat at Cuxhaven, a German North Sea Port. During the First World War

Military Camp on Farnborough Common with early Airship. Date: circa 1910s

Shell at the Front advertisement, 1914
Wartime advertisement for Shell petrol, demonstrating that it is used more extensively by Allied Forces both at home and abroad. Date: 1914

Airship Ville de Paris leaving its hangar at Verdun, France. Date: circa 1908

Airship SST2 Parked

Airship NS4 North Sea 4 Flying

Airship at Parking Mast Date: 1918

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Airship Z19 Gondola in a Hangar

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