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JANUARY 23, 1919 nsm A three-quarter rear view of the Porte Super-Baby Triplane Flying Boat \britiih Official. THE Imperial War Museum is to be the resting-place of the first shell fired from London at a Zeppelin. Sounds a bit duddish. WHICH brings to mind the little controversy which is mildly raging in the Press with the object of nailing down an historical date—where the first Hun bomb from the air fell. Even then, a further distinction has arisen between the first incendiary bomb and the first explosive bomb. BRAIKTREE Urban District Council has put up a case for the first pill on February 21, 1915, but Mr. J. Chambers of King's Lynn will have none of it. He records that " on the night of January 19, 1915, at about 10.30, a Zeppelin from the direction of the North Sea passed over Hunstanton, and from thence to Heacham, where it dropped an incen diary bomb, which fell into a water-butt belonging to an old lady who was outside with a lighted candle trying to ascertain the cause of the unusual noise. " Another incendiary bomb was dropped half a mile further on in a chalk-pit. At Snettisham the airship re leased a very powerful explosive bomb, shattering the windows of the parish church. From that point it took almost a bee- line to King's Lynn (very plainly discernible by its bright lights), where it dropped incendiary and explosive bombs in various parts of the town." Fi RTHER doubt arises per Mr. William Roberts, of Hun stanton, who alleges that Hunstanton no dcubt, was the first own honoured, although this attention came from the same airship \vhic:i scoi after left its mark at Heacham. British Official. FRONT VIEW OF THE PORTE SUPER-BABY TRIPLANE FLYING BOAT.—This Goliath is fitted Willi five Rolls-Royce " F.agle 8" engines arranged In two tandem sets and one single " pusher." Two of the rear "pusher" propellers are four-bladed, the centre rear propeller and the two tractor screws in front being two-bladed.2 The span is 123 ft., length of 'uaelaqe 60 ft., height, keel to ring post, 27 ft. 6 in., total weight m*] 23,400 lbs. *'3
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