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WEEKLY TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, MAY 15. 1937. HINDENBURG DESTROYED GRAND HOTEL OF THE AIR MYSTERIOUS EXPLOSION 65 ..

... WEEKLY TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, MAY 15. 1937. HINDENBURG DESTROYED GRAND HOTEL OF THE AIR MYSTERIOUS EXPLOSION 65 SURVIVE AND 35 DEAD Germany’s giant airship Hindenburg, largest vessel of its kind in the world and a grand hotel of the air is no more. WAS ...

Published: Saturday 15 May 1937
Newspaper: Ballymena Weekly Telegraph
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 64 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

DR ECKENER THE DESIGNER OF THU AIRSHIP, STATED: “IT IS VERY LIKELY THE DISASTER WAS DUE TO AN ACT OF SABOTAGE. ..

... time is not far off when it will replace the Hindenburg as an ambassador from continent to continent, and carry the German flag again across the oceans.” It is being recalled here to-day that the Hindenburg had been due to make a flight , round Germany ...

Published: Saturday 15 May 1937
Newspaper: Ballymena Weekly Telegraph
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 1252 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

BRITISH SURVIVOR

... LAKEHURST, Friday.—Mr. George Grant, the only British passenger in the Hindenburg. is in hospital with a broken leg, and badly bruised. —Reuter. HER FLIGHTS OVER BRITAIN. The Hindenburg's passing over the United Kingdom last summer in the course of her flights ...

Published: Saturday 15 May 1937
Newspaper: Ballymena Weekly Telegraph
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 170 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

SIR D. BURNEY’S THEORY

... deepest sympathy over the Hindenburg disaster. Mr. Cordell Hull, U.S. Secretary of State, has also cabled his condolences to Baron von Neurath, the German Foreign Minister. —Reuter. DETAILS OF THE GREAT AIRCRAFT. The Hindenburg, officially known as LZ 129 ...

Published: Saturday 15 May 1937
Newspaper: Ballymena Weekly Telegraph
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 650 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

CORONATION ACTIVITY,

... CORONATION ACTIVITY, The Hindenburg was to have brought last-minute visitors to the Coronation across the Atlantic. She was expected to arrive in Frankfort early on Monday, and then several aeroplanes kept in reserve would have flown the London bound ...

Published: Saturday 15 May 1937
Newspaper: Ballymena Weekly Telegraph
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 90 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

TOLD ON THE ATLANTIC ’PHONE

... such a sight it is terrible. All I can say is that she just exploded and burned . . . just flopped to the ground.” The Hindenburg was making her first flight of the season under the command of Captain Max Pruss, who succeeded Captain Lehmann. Pruss was ...

Published: Saturday 15 May 1937
Newspaper: Ballymena Weekly Telegraph
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 538 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

THE INSURANCE QUESTION

... Lamplugh. of the British Aviation Insurance Co.. Ltd., says that the loss to individual insurance companies in London by the Hindenburg disaster would be quite small. think I am right in saying,” he said, “that the Zeppelin company themselves hold 25 per cent ...

Published: Saturday 15 May 1937
Newspaper: Ballymena Weekly Telegraph
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 202 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

SCENE AT HOME VILLAGE

... METAL FROM RlOl USED. BT AN ODD TURN OF FATE, SCRAP METAL FROM THE RlOl HAD ACTUALLY BEEN USED THE CONSTRUCTION OF THE HINDENBURG. The German Government purchased the twisted framework of Britain’s ill-fated ship, which crashed in France with the loss ...

Published: Saturday 15 May 1937
Newspaper: Ballymena Weekly Telegraph
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 262 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

GERMAN ZEPPELIN FALLS IN FLAMES DISASTER IN AMERICA DEATH ROLL OF 35

... since died hospital, bringing th death coll up 35- 12 passengers and 22 of the crow, and one member the ground staff. The Hindenburg. which luad readied I-ake •hurst from Frankfort-on Mam, was forced cruioe above the airjiort for an hour owing bad weather ...

Published: Friday 14 May 1937
Newspaper: Ballymena Observer
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 870 | Page: 10 | Tags: none

GIANT CRAFT FELL APART

... in hospital, is described grave. MAX SCHMELING WAS LUCKY. Max Schmeling originally intended to come to the States by the Hindenburg, but changed his mind at the last minute, it is revealed. Mr. F. D. Fagg. director of the Federal Bureau of Air Commerce ...

Published: Saturday 15 May 1937
Newspaper: Ballymena Weekly Telegraph
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 340 | Page: 6 | Tags: none