" On the night of March 31st, 1930, after one last garbled radio transmission was heard from the Royal Canadian Navy's massive HMCD Samuel de Champlain (D was for Dirigible) seeking refuge from an Arctic storm, she disappeared from history. The Great Blizzard of '30 brought about the deaths of 30 Canadian Navy airmen, two First Nations guides and ended the short but glorious period of dirigible operations in Canada. In the morning of April 1st, or perhaps on one of the following 6 days, Samuel de Champlain and crew met their end. It was thought for decades that the crash site was over open water somewhere on James Bay. For months afterward, RCAF aircraft and northern RCMP patrols searched from Ungava Bay to Fort Churchill and as far south as the Laurentians. No signs of wreckage were discovered." http://urbsite.blogspot.com/2013/04/missing-airship-case-of-rcn-100.html
@caprockfabshop Thank you so much for posting this story. I had never heard it before and did not know of the Canadian airships existence. Appreciated.
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