SINGAPORE BASE
AN AIRSHIP STATION. GIANT SHEDS TO BE ERECTED. SURVEY NOW IN PROGRESS. (By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright). (Sun Cable.) LONDON, January 21. The Daily Mail says: “It is intended to make the Singapore base the biggest station for commercial airships on the Anglo-In-di an-Australian route, as well as the base for British air power in the East, from which naval airships will be'able to patrol the whole of the Eastern seas. The station contains every facility for the handling of land and sea planes, also airships. Already the aeroplane carrier Pegasus, with a fleet of fairy amphibians, is carrying out a preliminary survey of Singapore before the base is finally located. “Giant sheds will be erected to accommodate airships even bigger than Commander Burney’s monsters. In addition there will be a mooring mast and a gas plant.”
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Southland Times, Issue 19458, 23 January 1925, Page 5
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