scareships » Cawood 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 Near Cawood, North Yorkshire http://airminded.org/scareships/1913/02/22/near-cawood-north-yorkshire/ http://airminded.org/scareships/1913/02/22/near-cawood-north-yorkshire/#comments Fri, 21 Feb 1913 16:16:30 +0000 Brett Holman http://airminded.org/scareships/?p=113 At 7.40pm, Mrs. Schofield, the wife of the manager of Singer’s Machine Company in Selby, saw two very powerful lights, one in front ‘like the headlight of a motor car’ and one 30 to 40 feet to the rear approaching while being driven to the village of Cawood. Having seen a flight of army airmen on their way to Montrose in Scotland the day before, she was able to estimate the airship’s height at some 1500 to 2000 feet. It disappeared from view within three or four minutes.

Standard, 26 February 1913, p. 7. On the flight to Montrose, see Globe, 21 February 1913, p. 12, 22 February 1913, p. 7.

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