In the 1920s the British government was hoping airships would provide a means of transport to the far-flung Empire. Two vehicles were being trialled: the R100 and the R101. On its first overseas flight the R101 crashed at Beauvais, north of Paris. Of the 54 people on board 48 were killed.
The R100 had successfully crossed the Atlantic but was immediately grounded and in 1931 scrapped.
No film exists of the crash (though you may be familiar with the horrific Hindenburg footage) but there is .
This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
Crash of the R101 airship
Plaque unveiled by Angela Smith Baroness Smith of Basildon, together with mem...
Role on the lost expedition: Officer on SS Erebus. See John Franklin.
United Kingdom citizen who died in the terrorist attacks in America on 11 September 2001. Christopher John Moran was born on 25 May 1963 in Maidstone, Kent. He was the son of Michael J. Moran and ...
Station Officer - One of two men (with Frederick Mitchell) who gave their lives at Soho Fire Station on 7th October 1940. London Fire Journal gives his name as William Wilson. See Mitchell for som...
Musician and promoter. Died aged 21 after taking the drug ketamine. The picture source provides a lot of information about Louise and about the dangers of ketamine.
Terrence Alonzo Best was born on 9 December 1932. On 20 August 1959 he is shown as arriving in Southampton, Hampshire, aboard the S.S. Ascania having departed from Port of Spain, Trinidad and Toba...
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