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...commander was appointed-Lieutenant Commander Zachary Landsdowne. He was the official observer for the Navy on the British airship R-34, which crossed the Atlantic. He was later assigned to duty at the Zeppelin plant in Germany where the ZR3 is now being constructed for the U. S. No other officer in naval aviation has had the experience he has in handling rigid airships...
...McCrary, present commander, Rear Admiral William A. Moffet gave the following orders: "Upon being relieved by Lieutenant Commander Zachary Lansdowne as commanding officer of the U. S. S. Shenandoah, you will regard yourself detached from all duties aboard that airship...
...return to Paris, the Special French Navy Commission, which had been studying the Dixmude disaster on the spot, reported definitely that the airship was struck by lightning when it was 7,000 feet up at 2 o'clock in the morning...
Fire blackened wreckage, a gasoline tank, pieces of rubberized cloth, is all that has appeared of the Dixmude (TIME, Jan. 7) on the surface of the water. Bitter controversy as to the cause of the tragedy has so far produced no enlightening facts. American and British airship projects are in no wise to be altered-experts in both countries claim that structural weakness of the Dixmude, hastily built in wartime, is to blame, that better ships are now being built. The French, on the other hand, are likely to abandon all their work in such craft, concentrat- ing on supremacy...
...fisherman. No log among the few papers in his pockets, the failure of any carrier pigeons to return, a gleam of light seen off the coast of Sicily about the time that de Granadan's watch stopped led to the supposition that the disabled airship collapsed and exploded suddenly at her end, carrying 48 brave men to their death...