N.S.11 PHOTO GALLERY
The images below are either from the NS11.org collection, gathered over the last 25 years, or have been kindly donated by in digital form by our supporters and friends. Please get in contact if you wish to use any of the images elsewhere.
N.S.11 at rest early on in its career. Image: NS11.org
N.S.11 at unknown location. Image: NS11.org
N.S.11 at Eastchurch with three members of the crew “hanging out” on the catwalk. Image: With kind permission of Trevor Henshaw from his book The Sky Their Battlefield 2
Postcard of N.S.11 leaving shed at Cranwell. Image: NS11.org
N.S.11 “off for a cruise” at Cranwell. Image: NS11.org
N.S.11 over Royal Naval Air Station Pulham, 1919. With kind permission of the Pennoyer Centre, Pulham St. Mary’s.
N.S.11 over the Old Bailey, London, 1 January 1919. Image licenced from Alamy.
N.S.11 at at RAF Cranwell, 1919. Note the long range water tank is fitted above the control car and the WRNS officer in the foreground. Image: NS11.org
Starboard engine of N.S.11 with motorcycle stowed underneath (we are assuming Warneford’s). Image: Brian Carr, The Pennoyer Centre, Pulham St Marys.
Port engine of N.S.11. Image: Brian Carr, The Pennoyer Centre, Pulham St Marys.
N.S.11 flying east over Southampton Row, London. The hoardings on the right cover the future site of Victoria House which was built in the 1920s. Image: University of Otago, Hocken Collections – Uare Taoka o Hākena, from Sapper Francis McFarlane’s photographic album, P1193-024-088f
N.S.11 in shed. Image: NS11.org
N.S.11 above Broad Street, Crewe, 27 May 1919. Warneford doing a fly-by for his old workmates at Crewe Works, perhaps. Photograph kindly provided by Mark Potts.
N.S.11 above. Image: NS11.org
N.S.11 at Pulham. Image: NS11.org
N.S.11 at Clacton-on-Sea, probably 1919. The photograph was taken by Victor Cheeld, from the roof of the Castle Restaurant, which he owned. With kind permission of Clacton & District Local History Society.
N.S.11 in flight. Image: NS11.org
Airship N.S.11 is a shed at Cranwell. With kind permission of Paul Adams.
N.S.11 over Pulham. From the Nellie Crickmore archive. Image: NS11.org
From Spike Johnson of the Kent History Forum comes this photograph of N.S.11, possibly taken by his grandfather at RAF Eastchurch, Isle of Sheppy, Kent, where he was an RAF Warrant Officer Gunnery Instructor (having started out in the Royal Flying Corps during WWI). On a journey that started from Longside on 16 March 1919, N.S.11 landed at Eastchurch on 18 March 1919, after a flight of 40 hours, 30 minutes. The flight was intended to be a complete circuit of the North Sea but the ship developed trouble with the starboard engine and the attempt had to be terminated. Image published with kind permission of Spike Johnson.
N.S.11 possibly at Pulham. Lantern slide. Image: NS11.org
N.S.11 when newly constructed at Kingsnorth. Image: Museum of Flight, Seattle
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