Airshipworld
Book:
Arctic
Mission
By Airship and Submarine
to the Far North
by William F. Althoff
Approx. A4 size (11 x 8.5
inches or 285mm x 215mm)
hardback, 311 pages, over
100 illustrations, 20 in colour
ISBN 0-9583693-2-1, First
Edition (April 1999)
Published for the Lighter-Than-Air
Institute by Tiola Consolidated Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand
Arctic Mission is the latest
work of scholarship from the pen of Bill Althoff. It tells in fine detail
of two notable US Navy enterprises to the Northern Ocean. Firstly, the
flight of ZPG-2 airship (BuNo 126719), under the command of Captain Harold
B. Van Gorder to Ice Station Bravo on the Ice Island T-3, a few hundred
miles south of the pole. Dubbed the Snow Goose, the airship was making
a trial flight designed to test the suitability of LTA craft as arctic
research platforms. Although very successful, the termination of Navy airship
operations prevented any repeat of the achievement. The second is an account
of the fine voyage of the USS Nautilus (SSN 571) - America's first nuclear-powered
submarine - across the top of the world, under the polar ice cap, commanded
by Cmdr. William Anderson. The dangers posed to vessel and crew are captured
in this absorbing account.
William F. Althoff lives
in New Jersey, USA and is a respected author on LTA topics. His previous
works include "Skyships: A History of The Airship in the US Navy" and many
published magazine articles.
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