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The Hindenburg

... The Hindenburg. IN the early hours of the morning the biggest airship in the world, the Hindenburg, was wrecked by explosion and fire at her landing port in America. The one comforting feature of the disaster is that the loss of life is considerably less ...

Published: Friday 07 May 1937
Newspaper: Halifax Evening Courier
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 504 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

MYSTERY OF EXPLOSION WHICH WRECKED THE HINDENBURG 66 Survivors of Great Airship's Crash. SABOTAGE SUGGESTION

... EXPLOSION WHICH WRECKED THE HINDENBURG 66 Survivors of Great Airship's Crash. SABOTAGE SUGGESTION. German Designer Talks of Threatening Letters. The latest death roll of the disaster to Germany's giant airship, the Hindenburg. which occurred as she was ...

Published: Friday 07 May 1937
Newspaper: Halifax Evening Courier
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 300 | Page: 12 | Tags: none

LONDON PASSENGER SAFE. Cable Received by His Daughter. One of the two London passengers inethe Hindenburg is ..

... LONDON PASSENGER SAFE. Cable Received by His Daughter. One of the two London passengers in e the Hindenburg is safe. _ _ He A Mr. George Grant. of Swanageroad _London. SW.. the assistant mana- ger of the Hamburgh-American line in London, r. nd to-day ...

Published: Friday 07 May 1937
Newspaper: Halifax Evening Courier
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 175 | Page: 11 | Tags: none

Hindenburg. while over the Atlantic. received a wireless message from the German Government, Qrdenng her not to ..

... Hindenburg. while over the Atlantic. received a wireless message from the German Government, Qrdenng her not to cross Britain. NEARLY RAMMED. During one of her flights over England last year. the mammoth airship was nearly rammed by an R.A.P. Instruction ...

Published: Friday 07 May 1937
Newspaper: Halifax Evening Courier
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 106 | Page: 11 | Tags: none

own behalf and on that of British aviation. sincere sympathy on the tragic disaster to atrah.m. Hindenburg. ..

... own behalf and on that of British aviation. sincere sympathy on the tragic disaster to atrah.m. Hindenburg. MORE AIRSHIPS BEING BUILT. Private Companies' Plans Revealed. Nyashington, B.C. 1 Transatlantic airship passenger services. it is retested nee ...

Published: Friday 07 May 1937
Newspaper: Halifax Evening Courier
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 156 | Page: 12 | Tags: none

SIR HUBERT WILKINS'S VIEW

... the Hindenburg when she made her maiden flight to America last, year, told a reporter that he had lost many close friends in the disaster. Having spent almost a month on board, both during and after her trials, I got to know most of the Hindenburg's crew ...

Published: Friday 07 May 1937
Newspaper: Halifax Evening Courier
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 299 | Page: 11 | Tags: none

CONSTRUCTOR AT A LOSS

... the great hangar from which the ' Hindenburg set out on her last Journey. : The whole staff of the Zeppelin Company and their relations crowded Into the great hall where Dr. Ludwig Duerr, the constructor of the Hindenburg, read out the names of those known ...

Published: Friday 07 May 1937
Newspaper: Halifax Evening Courier
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 300 | Page: 12 | Tags: none

FRIGHTFUL

... 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 on ...

Published: Friday 07 May 1937
Newspaper: Halifax Evening Courier
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 254 | Page: 11 | Tags: none

RlOl METAL _USED IN HINDEN- BiFid

... METAL _USED IN HINDEN- BiFid. By an odd turn of fate, scrap metal from the had actually been used in_the_construction of tne Hindenburg, —.— In 1930, the German Government purchased the twisted framework of the ill-fated British airship and shipped it from ...

Published: Friday 07 May 1937
Newspaper: Halifax Evening Courier
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 157 | Page: 11 | Tags: none

DR. ECKENER. Impossible for Lightning to Have Been Cause

... DR. ECKENER. Impossible for Lightning to Have Been Cause. Graz, Friday. A sensational allegation that the Hindenburg cilsaster may have been due to sabotage, was made by Dr. Eckener. who arrived here last night Dr. Eckener learned of the disaster ...

Published: Friday 07 May 1937
Newspaper: Halifax Evening Courier
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 165 | Page: 12 | Tags: none

SEVERAL BODIES STILL IN DEBRIS

... are still believed to be in the debris. . . . The majority of the missing are stated to be Germans. The cargo aboard the Hindenburg consisted mainly cf small cngine parts and packages ccntairing films and newspaper photographs. There was some mail on toard ...

Published: Friday 07 May 1937
Newspaper: Halifax Evening Courier
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 398 | Page: 12 | Tags: none

FAITH IN AIRSHIPS NOT SHAKEN

... 1930, after the Rl3l had crashed in France, was recalled here as dawn broke. Mothers, wives and sisters of the crew of the Hindenburg. as soon as they had heard the news of the disaster, went from their homes in the new Zeppelin village near the airport ...

Published: Friday 07 May 1937
Newspaper: Halifax Evening Courier
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 243 | Page: 11 | Tags: none