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C.26
The Royal Naval Air Service C.26 was a Coastal class airship, Coastal class World War I non-rigid airship. The airship was used to search for German submarines off the British coast. The airship had made a total of 202 flight hours between 21 November 1916 and 14 December 1917. The airship was powered by two Daimler-branded 12-cylinder engines and could stay in the air for 22 hours. The balloon of the airship was about 60 meters long. The airship had a crew of five in a gondola below the balloon. After drifting over the North Sea due to an engine failure, the airship finally crashed in Eemnes the Netherlands in the morning of 14 December 1917. Crew * Commander flight lieutenant G.C.C. Kilburn. Kilburn started his services in 1915, as a midshipman. On 11 November 1915, he made his first flight in an airship, the SS14. After a long training he was transferred to Scotland in June 1916, where flew for the first time on a Coastal Class airship. He first flew in the C.5 and later that ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eemnes
Eemnes () is a municipality and a village in the Netherlands, in the province of Utrecht. The town of Eemnes Eemnes formerly consisted of two villages, Eemnes-Binnen ("Inner Eemnes") and Eemnes-Buiten ("Outer Eemnes"). These names referred to the location of the villages with respect to the dyke of the river Eem. Eemnes-Buiten received city rights in 1345; Eemnes-Binnen was granted city rights in 1439. ''Dutch topographic map of the municipality of Eemnes, June 2015'' Pools Until 1932, when the Afsluitdijk sealed off the Zuiderzee from the North Sea, the weak dykes in this part of the country would occasionally break during storms. This resulted in the formation of pools, which in Dutch are called "''waaien''" or "''wielen''". Because they could be tens of meters in diameter and several metres deep, landowners often did not make the effort of filling them up. Because they symbolize man's battle against the sea and are relatively rare, provincial authorities designated the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
