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

... LARNE TIMES. 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. IT WAS BLOWN ...

Published: Saturday 15 May 1937
Newspaper: Larne Times
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 136 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

TWO THEORIES

... 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: Larne Times
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 310 | Page: 6 | 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

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

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

CORONATION ACTIVITY

... CORONATION ACTIVITY. The Hindenburg was to nave 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: Larne Times
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 91 | 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: Larne Times
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 546 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

THE INSURANCE QUESTION

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

Published: Saturday 15 May 1937
Newspaper: Larne Times
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 Rl#l HAD ACTUALLY BEEN USED IN 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: Larne Times
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 261 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

GIANT CRAFT FELL

... hospital, is described as 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: Larne Times
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 334 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

TO HOSPITAL BY AMBULANCE

... THEORY. LAKEHURST (New Jersey). Saturday. —A spark from the sky and a broken brace wire were the probable causes of the Hindenburg disaster, according to evidence given at the inquiry here to-day by Dr. Eckener, the creator of the Dr. Eckener pointed ...

Published: Saturday 29 May 1937
Newspaper: Larne Times
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 773 | Page: 4 | Tags: none