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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: Friday 07 May 1937
Newspaper: Belfast Telegraph
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 181 | Page: 16 | Tags: none

BERLIN ASTOUNDED

... the 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. is being recalled here to-day that the Hindenburg had been due to make a flight round Germany on ...

Published: Saturday 15 May 1937
Newspaper: Larne Times
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 515 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

BERLIN'S GIFT OF ECON

... General Goering a subscription of £4.000 on behalf of the city towards the cost of building a new Zeppelin to replace the Hindenburg.— Reuter. ...

Published: Monday 10 May 1937
Newspaper: Belfast Telegraph
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 37 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

TESTAMENT OF THE DEAD

... TESTAMENT OF THE DEAD. General Mulch said that before the Hindenburg accident they had believed that they had mastered the difficulties of airship traffic. The cause of the disaster was still unknown, and the commission of inquiry was hard at work, helped ...

Published: Saturday 22 May 1937
Newspaper: Belfast Telegraph
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 220 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

TWISTED MASS OF METAL

... Sprawling across the airfield here a twisted mass of metal and charred fabric Is all that remains ot the great £300,000 Hindenburg. the pride of Germany’s air fleet. Identification of the victims is very’ difllcult, as the airship's manifest was lost ...

Published: Saturday 08 May 1937
Newspaper: Northern Whig
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 349 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

LAUGHING, WAVING PASSENGERS. THEN CAME DISASTER. TERRIFIC BURST OF FLAME. LAKEHURST (New Jersey), Friday On the ..

... third of her reported total of 97 aboard have died. At midnight last night the airport was to have seen the departure of the Hindenburg for Europe carrying the largest number of passengers in history, of which many would have been bound for London to sec the ...

Published: Saturday 15 May 1937
Newspaper: Larne Times
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 373 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

FRESH THEORIES

... of the accident continue to be advanced privately. A report that one of the engines the airship began backfiring as the Hindenburg was flying over New Jersey before the accident was told to Commander Rosendahl. of the Lakehurst Air Station, by Kenneth ...

Published: Monday 10 May 1937
Newspaper: Northern Whig
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 236 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

GERMANY TO BUILD MORE ZEPPELINS. SHIP NEARING COMPLETION

... NEARING COMPLETION DR. ECKENER SHOCKED AT NEWS. BERLIN. Friday.—Official circles here while appalled at the disaster of the Hindenburg. declare that it will have no A new airshipis nearing completion effect on the further building of Zeppelins already at ...

Published: Friday 07 May 1937
Newspaper: Belfast Telegraph
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 420 | Page: 16 | Tags: none

THEORY OF SABOTAGE

... THEORY OF SABOTAGE THE suggestion that the destruction of the giant Zeppelin, Hindenburg, may have been due to sabotage will be fully investigated by the Board of Inquiry which will begin the hearing of evidence at Lakehurst, New Jersey, to-day. A naval ...

Published: Saturday 08 May 1937
Newspaper: Belfast News-Letter
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 63 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

PASSENGERS-CREW INSURED

... PASSENGERS-CREW INSURED. BERLIN, Saturday.—lt was officially confirmed to-day that the Hindenburg was insured for 6.000.000 reichmarks (&500.000). The passengers were insured against death for 2.400.000 reichmarks (E200.0:3). and against injury for a ...

Published: Monday 10 May 1937
Newspaper: Belfast Telegraph
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 52 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

SIR D. BURNEY’S THEORY

... holiday in the Gulf Mexico, has cabled to Herr Hitler expressing his deepest sympathy over the Hindenburg disaster. DETAILS OF THE GREAT AIRCRAFT. The Hindenburg, officially known LZ 129. finest and largest vessel of her type in existence, was launched in ...

Published: Saturday 15 May 1937
Newspaper: Larne Times
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 648 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

THE ILL-FATED RAM

... limped back to Friedrichshafen only an hour behind schedule. VARYING ACCOUNTS New lurk, Friday. After leaving New York the Hindenburg flew slowly over towns along the New Jersey coast, and reached the air n.,se shortly after 4 p.m. Fearing o land in a persistent ...

Published: Saturday 15 May 1937
Newspaper: Irish Weekly and Ulster Examiner
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 647 | Page: 10 | Tags: none