ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 152252
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| Date: | Wednesday 27 June 1917 |
| Time: | |
| Type: | North Sea Class Airship |
| Owner/operator: | Royal Naval Air Service |
| Registration: | N.S. 2 |
| MSN: | 2 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
| Location: | Stoneham, near Stowmarket, Suffolk -
 United Kingdom
|
| Phase: | En route |
| Nature: | Military |
| Departure airport: | RNAS, Kingsnorth, Medway, Kent |
| RNAS, Kingsnorth, Medway, Kent | |
| Confidence Rating: |  Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources |
Early in June 1917, the trials of N.S.2 were conducted at Kingsnorth and as these proved satisfactory it was decided to make an endurance trial similar to that made with N.S.1. On 27th June – incidentally the second day of N.S.1’s record flight – N.S.2 left Kingsnorth for a flight which was planned to take it via Cranwell and Pulham, back to Kingsnorth.
However, due to some reason which was never fully explained, the ship began to loose gas, became unmanageable, and was wrecked in an attempted landing at Stoneham near Stowmarket, Suffolk.There were no casulties, but the ship was beyond repair. Total flying time on the airframe - 11 hours
Sources:
1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NS_class_blimp
2. http://www.ns11.org/north-sea-3/
3. [LINK NOT WORKING ANYMORE:http://www.worldnavalships.com/forums/showthread.php?t=10210&page=2]
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 05-Jan-2013 13:31 | harro | Added |
| 11-Feb-2017 20:37 | Dr.John Smith | Updated [Aircraft type, Cn, Operator, Total fatalities, Other fatalities, Location, Departure airport, Destination airport, Source, Narrative] |
| 20-Mar-2022 06:41 | Ron Averes | Updated [Aircraft type, Departure airport, Destination airport] |
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