R38 Airship Disaster Memorial - St. Mary's Church
Introduction
The photograph on this page of R38 Airship Disaster Memorial - St. Mary's Church by David Wright as part of the Geograph project.
The Geograph project started in 2005 with the aim of publishing, organising and preserving representative images for every square kilometre of Great Britain, Ireland and the Isle of Man.
There are currently over 7.5m images from over 14,400 individuals and you can help contribute to the project by visiting https://www.geograph.org.uk
R38 Airship Disaster Memorial - St. Mary's Church
Image: © David Wright Taken: 9 Apr 2008
The RAF Museum website says "23 August HM Airship R38, which had been sold to the United States Navy (USN) whilst under construction, and redesignated the ZR-2, breaks up in the air over Hull during an acceptance test flight. Air Commodore E.M. Maitland of the Royal Air Force, Commander L.H. Maxfield of the United States Navy, 27 officers and men of the Royal Air Force and 15 officers and men of the United States Navy are killed. The captain of the R38, Flight Lieutenant Wann, and three crewmembers survive." For further information see http://www.hullcc.gov.uk/museumcollections/collections/theme.php?irn=195
Images are licensed for reuse under creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0
Image Location
Latitude
53.742002
Longitude
-0.570029