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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Lakehurst to Friedrichshafen. Except for brief electrical storms, navigation was simple for Capt. Ernst A. Lehmann on the Grafs final 5,300 miles from Lakehurst to Friedrichshafen. He kept lookout for the lost Swiss flyers (TIME, Sept. 2) and detoured over Santander, Spain, to salute King Alfonso and Queen Victoria. This detour was a prudent courtesy, because Spain is planning a dirigible hangar at Seville, which will be useful when the Germans establish their Europe-South America Zeppelin line. But some passengers were vexed at the out-of-the-way delay. Their nerves were jumpy because one Frederick S. Hogg...
...testimony could the captain of the San Juan give. He, Capt. Adolph F. Asplund, grizzled 65-year-old sea dog, had gone down with his ship. Strangely, it had been a "friendship" voyage for him. For three years retired, he had accommodated a brother captain desirous of a vacation...
...Married. Capt. Sir George Hubert Wilkins, 40, Australian polar flyer. Graf Zeppelin passenger and Hearst correspondent; and Suzanne Bennett, 28. Australia-born actress (Vanities, The Cyclone Lover); in Cleveland...
Commander of the Graf Zeppelin on her home jaunt was small, saturnine Capt. Ernst A. Lehmann, 42, Assistant Director of the Zeppelin works and easily Dr. Ecke-ner's peer in airship navigation. He was a naval architect on the late Count Ferdinand Zeppelin's staff and was operating a Zeppelin, the Sachsen, when the War broke out. Perforce he became a raider, bombed Antwerp once, London twice. In his book The Zeppelins, he reports, without boast or apology, that he could have destroyed London were that the German desire. He invented the device of concealing dirigible raiders by lowering...
...Capt. Harold A. Cunningham navigated the S. S. Leviathan westward from Cherbourg with a record-breaking number of passengers aboard (2,730). With millionaires bunking with the crew, dowagers traveling third class, Captain Cunningham wired a berth-seeking friend: "Would put you up in my own cabin but every locker is full. Reserving bottom shelf for you next trip...