SECRET BRITISH AIRSHIP: ONE OF THE LARGEST OF BRITISH RIGID AIRSHIPS, RECENTLY BUILT. These vessels, known as the "R" class are equal in size to the most successful German zeppelin, and teats have proved they will equal, if not surpass, zeppelin performances. Length, 670 feet; diameter, 79 feet* capacity., 2,000,000 feet; speed, 70 miles per hour. She is capable of a non-stop journey across the Atlantic. '
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Otago Witness, Issue 3396, 16 April 1919, Page 36 (Supplement)
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66SECRET BRITISH AIRSHIP: ONE OF THE LARGEST OF BRITISH RIGID AIRSHIPS, RECENTLY BUILT. These vessels, known as the "R" class are equal in size to the most successful German zeppelin, and teats have proved they will equal, if not surpass, zeppelin performances. Length, 670 feet; diameter, 79 feet* capacity., 2,000,000 feet; speed, 70 miles per hour. She is capable of a non-stop journey across the Atlantic. ' Otago Witness, Issue 3396, 16 April 1919, Page 36 (Supplement)
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