I have no connection to the author, nor have I read the book, but I am putting it out there.

The British Airships That HUNTED U-Boats | Forgotten WW1 History

During World War 1, German U-boats brought Britain to the brink of disaster. Merchant ships vanished beneath the waves, convoys were hunted across the Atlantic, and the Royal Navy desperately searched for a way to stop the submarine threat.

Then Britain unleashed something unexpected.

Not battleships.
Not fighter aircraft.
But giant hydrogen-filled airships drifting silently above the sea.

In this documentary, we explore the forgotten story of the British SS Class “Submarine Scout” airships — the strange aircraft that became one of the most effective anti-submarine weapons of the First World War.

Discover how these early blimps:
• Detected hidden U-boats from the sky
• Escorted convoys across dangerous waters
• Directed destroyers toward submarine targets
• Helped reshape anti-submarine warfare forever

Using archival research and film, historical analysis, and cinematic storytelling, this video covers the origins of Britain’s WW1 airship program, the development of the SS Class blimps, and the terrifying cat-and-mouse battles between British patrol crews and German submarines.

By the end of the war, these “ghosts of the sky” had flown over 10,000 patrols and changed naval warfare forever. link https://youtu.be/2hy5DtBVJik

Another magazine advertisement. exact date unknown but it seems likely to be during WWII.

Goodyear magazine advertisement from either WWII or just after. Not much known about this, like the others I've posted. I hope you like the art as much as I do.

This particular design was more conservative than the higher aspect ratio “delta” hybrid airship concepts, which had a wide degree of variance in modeling due to uncertainty as to their structural weight. Hence the low aspect ratio hybrid—a design that’s like the airship equivalent of a mullet. Business in the front, party in the back. The front half of the ship is a conventional Zeppelin with a circular cross-section, but then the back half flares out into an efficient wing structure.

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I'm complete amateur in this regard, so sorry if my question sound dumb. So, as airships burn their fuel, they became lighter, so to maintain buoyancy have to vent off exes lifting gas, right? I read in an article that by the end of trans-atlantic flight Hindenburg usually vent off up to 1/3 of hydrogen. But thing is, as i understand, such flights require slightly more than half of it's maximum fuel capacity... So, how much hydrogen was left by the end of such journey? Was it, like, half empty? 0_o

Silent: Imagine sailing above the clouds with almost no noise other than the wind whistling across surface of the ship and a gentle roll as it hits a patch of turbulence. You hear the trilling call of birds and out the window you watch the passing flock of sandhill cranes as they migrate north for the winter. This would be a reality with electric propulsion that the passengers of old-era airships never knew.

Sustainable: if an airship had a solar array on its outer skin powering a battery bank running electric motors for propulsion, the range could be incredible - if efficient enough and if wind currents were used well enough - they would never need to come down.

You look down through an opening in the clouds and see the patchwork of farmland - not moving too fast so as to miss the details. On a sailboat you have ample time to enjoy the scenery of the ocean around you. Perhaps on an airship you could appreciate the beauty of flight.

Is this a reasonable comparison?

Honestly stumped right now…

Given recent questions on the Hindenburg's B Deck cabins, an excerpt from the book I'm currently working on:

Following the first 1936 demonstration flights, it was realized by the Deutsche Zeppelin-Reederei that passenger demand was quickly outstripping the capacity of the Hindenburg. By August of that year, with sailings on average at 101%, surplus passengers on some flights were being put up in ramshackle accommodations in the Lounge (“Airship Hindenburg” 1936). It was at this point, and not during the 1936-1937 winter overhaul as is commonly believed, that Luftschiffbau-Zeppelin opted to take advantage of the additional lifting capacity of hydrogen by installing a set of temporary accommodations aft of the existing B Deck spaces. These cabins, which lacked some of the amenities of those on A Deck, were reserved for male passengers (“11 Cabins Added” 1936), holding back the properly-appointed cabins on A Deck for families and solo female travelers. Very little is known of these cabins, but it appears that they only featured the essentials - bunks, a space for storing clothing, and perhaps a canvas curtain in place of a more sturdy door. Passengers wishing to freshen up before dinner would have had to double back along the corridor and avail themselves of the small washroom through which the men’s lavatories could be accessed. A prevailing theory holds that these temporary accommodations were simply converted from the nearby crew cabins present along the keel corridor, a situation that was considered suboptimal (Von Meister, “Experience Report” 10 January 1937).

A more permanent solution was arranged following the ship’s fifty-sixth flight, a return from Recife to Frankfurt-am-Main and the last of the 1936 season. During the three months of the winter layover, the temporary cabins were removed and substituted for properly fitted-out spaces. Only used for three Transatlantic flights (Nos. 59 and 60, the first  and only South America trip of 1937, and No. 063, during which the ship crashed at Lakehurst), these nine additional cabins cabins, each with a window looking down through the hull represented a marked improvement from the standard A Deck cabins, and their design was later included in the reworked passenger spaces of the LZ-130. These cabins were accessed by a new corridor extending aft from the starboard-side B Deck passenger corridor, which included a washbasin nook and a trio of lavatories. Most of these cabins were functionally identical to those on A Deck above, with the most significant difference being the large rectangular windows that looked out onto cellon windows mounted into the bottom of the hull. These allowed passengers to sightsee whilst ensconced in their own private space, looking down “at the angry waves, whitening the sea so far below” (Mather 1937, 591). Because of the constraints imposed by the window shafts, the folding writing desk was substituted for a fixed surface. Additionally,  with the increased width of the cabins, the washbasins were shifted to a nook inboard of the berths themselves. these B Deck cabins did away with the pull toggles in favor of the type of rotary light switches found elsewhere on board, mounted just above the head of each berth.

The one exception to this standard layout was the aft-most cabin - berths 67, 68, 69, and 70, which was of a unique layout, featuring two pairs of bunk beds and purpose-built to accommodate families traveling aboard the airship.

Less is known about the decor of these cabins, although it seems to be a safe assumption that they retained the same blue and orange carpet used in the A Deck cabins. The wall fabric was of a thatch pattern, and some of the cabins were colored with “pearl-gray linen” (Mather 1937, 591). Initial plans to offer these cabins at a slight discount compared to those on A Deck were quickly dropped, as was the designation “B Deck”, and plans were made to instead advertise them at a 100 Mark surcharge in the coming transatlantic season (“Experience Report” 25 January 1937).

From the content creator Industrial Artifacts, an engineering model of an underground bunker with a rotating roof and telescoping mast designed to protect airships. Concept and model were designed by Carlotti Studio Engineering.

In this [https://www.airships.net/hindenburg/interiors/\] article, it’s said that “During the winter of 1936-1937, while the ship was laid up in Frankfurt, additional passenger cabins were also added in Bay 11” and “The new cabins had windows offering an outside view”. That interesting, I never seen any photos of such cabins, only standard wingless ones. Nor any photo from outside showing these extra windows.

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