Vickers Naval Airship in Cavendish Dock, Barrow - 22 May 1911

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    Vickers Naval Airship in Cavendish Dock, Barrow - 22 May 1911. The largest naval airship in the World at the time, the HMA1, nicknamed 'Mayfly' in the centre of Cavendish Dock. Rowing boats in attendance. Spectators on dockside. The first flight was 22 May 1911. Image from the Sankey Family Photograph Collection (c/o Cumbria Archives), available under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0) licence. id 1099, BDB 86/1/6780. Sankey Family Photographic Archive © Cumbria Archives
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    Sankey Family Photography Collection (Cumbria Archives)
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    Link: https://www.sankeyphotoarchive.uk/collection/view/?id=8831
    Resource type: Text/Website
    Added by: Simon Cotterill
    Last modified: 2 hours, 18 minutes ago
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