scareships » Dover http://airminded.org/scareships The British phantom airship scares, 1909-1913 Tue, 17 Jun 2008 15:52:46 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.5 en Dover, Kent http://airminded.org/scareships/1913/02/25/dover-kent-2/ http://airminded.org/scareships/1913/02/25/dover-kent-2/#comments Tue, 25 Feb 1913 09:04:24 +0000 Brett Holman http://airminded.org/scareships/1913/02/25/dover-kent-2/ Lights were seen and an engine heard.

Manchester Guardian, 1 March 1913, p. 9.

]]> http://airminded.org/scareships/1913/02/25/dover-kent-2/feed/ Dover, Kent http://airminded.org/scareships/1913/01/04/dover-kent/ http://airminded.org/scareships/1913/01/04/dover-kent/#comments Sat, 04 Jan 1913 06:43:48 +0000 Brett Holman http://airminded.org/scareships/?p=73 At about 5am, town employee John Hobbs saw an aircraft carrying a light (which, it was thought, made it more likely to be an airship than an aeroplane), coming in from over the sea. It was moving very fast in a north-easterly direction, with strong winds coming from the west. He first heard the throb of its engines, which was also heard by police constable Pierce and a tradesman named Langley.

The Times, 6 January 1913, p. 6; Standard, 21 January 1913, p. 9, 22 January 1913, p. 9.

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