scareships » Clacton-on-Sea http://airminded.org/scareships The British phantom airship scares, 1909-1913 Mon, 19 Jan 2009 13:49:02 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 en hourly 1 Clacton-on-Sea, Essex http://airminded.org/scareships/1909/05/07/clacton-on-sea-essex/ http://airminded.org/scareships/1909/05/07/clacton-on-sea-essex/#comments Thu, 06 May 1909 14:00:14 +0000 Brett Holman http://airminded.org/scareships/2005/06/11/clacton-on-sea-essex/ Egerton Free saw a long sausage-shaped airship manoeuvring over the cliffs for a few minutes at dusk (one report says 10.30pm); it remained stationary at a an estimated height of 600 feet for a few minutes and then headed north-east. At the same location the next day he found ‘a curious object made of steel and India-rubber’ weighing 35lb, stamped with the words ‘Müller Bremen Fabrik’.

Manchester Guardian, 20 May 1909, p. 7; Norfolk News, 15 May 1909, p. 15; Standard, 17 May 1909, p. 9; Globe, 17 May 1909, p. 7.

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