25 APRIL 1925, Page 15

On Friday, April 17th, the Airship R 33 returned ifely

to her hangar at Fulham, in Norfolk, after an involuntary cruise across the North Sea. Her position as she rode at her mooring mast in a westerly gale had been seen to be precarious, and a nucleus crew had been sent on board with provisions. She wrenched her moorings from the top of the mast and damaged her foremost gasbag. She was thus badly down by the nose when she began to drift eastward. With great promptitude the crew righted her by throwing out ballast and started the engines in two or three minutes. Keeping her head to the wind they drifted astern out to the North Sea. Eventually, when the gale abated, they were over the Dutch coast and began the successful voyage home. * • *