A Gas Bag That Bored The Huns [HMA “23”, Vickers Airship], 1917. Vintage silver gelatin photograph, titled in pencil with various annotations in pencil and crayon verso, 50.5 x 59.9cm. Stains, tears, slight silvering and missing portions to edges of image and margins. Ref CL165-105 HMA 23 was commissioned on 15th October 1917 and used mainly for training and experimental work. Flying over London a few times to impress the public were the air ship’s high points in an otherwise mundane and unwarlike career. She was decommissioned in September 1919.

Size
50.5 x 59.9 cm

Condition
Vintage silver gelatin photograph, titled in pencil with various annotations in pencil and crayon verso, 50.5 x 59.9cm. Stains, tears, slight silvering and missing portions to edges of image and margins

Medium
Vintage silver gelatin photograph