[94] 2 PHOTOS: I-SAAN SEMI RIGID AIRSHIP BUILT by UMBERTO NOBILE [1885-1978]

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The following approximate one hundred unreserved auctions are for the dispersal of a recently discovered archive of original photographs, negatives & glass lanterns by various photographers of airships, dirigibles, observation balloons, Zepplins, Submarine Scout Class, Coastal Class [airships] etc, etc from the UK, USA, France, Japan, Russia etc, etc. Also to include a rare set of images [negatives] of the R101 airship disaster in October 1930 taken at Beauvais, France . [To include gun carriages at the disaster site removing the bodies, carrying the dead through Beauvais to the train station before journying to Boulogne and on to Dover via HMS Tempest]. Please Note :- All items are original unless stated but please be aware I am not an authority on the subject of early flight [airships, blimps, observation balloons dirigibles] and have very little knowledge on the subject. Where the subjects have been annotated I have included this in the description. You must verify the information for yourself. Please also bear in mind the slides have only been scanned and not enhanced in anyway. [94] This auction consists of two original photographs of " I-SAAN " was a semi-rigid airship built by the Italian engineer Umberto Nobile [1885-1978] and used by the Norwegian polar explorer Roald Amundsen [1872-1928] . In 1926 a similar airship, the read more