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Airships at the Royal Navy Air Station, Capel, Surrey

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World War I. The airship station at Capel le Ferne between Dover and Folkestone, Kent, was established in spring 1915 to provide anti-submarine patrols urgently needed to protect British shipping in the Dover Straits. At the end of World War I, it had a fleet of nine 'Submarine Scout' airships, which required a large number of men to manoeuvre them around the site and in and out of their huge sheds. Wingless aeroplanes were sometimes used to power airships, as shown here.

Fleet Air Arm Museum

Ilchester

Title

Airships at the Royal Navy Air Station, Capel, Surrey

Date

1978

Medium

oil on canvas

Measurements

H 63.3 x W 76.1 cm

Accession number

1979/067/0002

Acquisition method

purchased from the artist, 1979

Work type

Painting

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