RIGGERS
- Flight Sergeant Robinson.
- Sergeant Watson.
- Corporal Burgess.
- Corporal Smith.
- L. A. C. Foreath.
- L. A. C. Browdie.
WIRELESS-TELEGRAPH OPERATORS
Corporal Powell.
A. C. Edwards.
Air Ministry Sends Greetings
11 A. M.—Still ploughing our way through the fog at 1,300 feet. Sea completely hidden by clouds and no visibility whatsoever. Stopped forward and two aft engines, and now running on only two wing engines at 1,600 revolutions. These are giving us an air speed of 30 knots, or 33.6 miles per hour. This is the airship’s most efficient speed, as she only consumes on the two engines twenty-five gallons of petrol per hour.
Wind is east, seven miles per hour, and so we are making good forty miles per hour and resting three engines.
Cooke is now on top of the airship taking observations of the sun, using the cloud horizon with a sextant. The sun is visible to him but not to us, the top of the ship being eighty-five feet above us down here in the fore-central cabin.
Our position is reckoned to be latitude 55 degrees 10 minutes north and longitude 14 degrees 40 minutes west, which is equivalent to 400 miles from our starting-point at East Fortune and 200 miles out in the Atlantic from the northwest coast of Ireland.