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    The R.38 class (also known as the A class) of rigid airships was designed for Britain's Royal Navy during the final months of the First World War, intended...
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    construct an airship was modified when the Royal Navy cancelled its own order for four rigid airships. The first ship of the class, R38, was already under...
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    The R31 class of British rigid airships was constructed in the closing months of World War I, and comprised two aircraft, His Majesty's Airship R31 and...
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    This was the last of the great airship disasters; it was preceded by the crashes of the British R38, the US airship Roma, the French Dixmude, the USS...
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    blimp ever built TC class blimp - transferred from US Army MZ-3A (experimental) first Navy airship in 40 years USS Shenandoah (ZR-1) R38 / ZR-2 USS Los Angeles...
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    Retained for possible use as a commercial airship R.36 was broken up in 1926. Four airships of the R38 Class were started but only one completed: it was...
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    Ann's Hill Cemetery in Gosport. R38-class airship R101 List of airship accidents History of the Royal Navy "British Airship Burns with Crew; Twelve Lost...
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    the earliest of the great airship disasters, preceded by the crash of the British R38 in 1921 (44 dead) and the US airship Roma in 1922 (34 dead), and...
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    dock side, and many injuries; the vessel itself sank. In 1921, an R38-class airship broke apart while performing a sharp turn near Victoria Pier. It then...
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    class airships R36 - first flight, 1 April 1921. Accidental damage on 21 June 1921 and never repaired (G-FAAF) R37 - Not Completed R38 class airships...
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