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[edit]The attempted balloon voyage across the Channel. Rescue of the balloon by the Calais packet as seen through a telescope. | |||
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The attempted balloon voyage across the Channel. Rescue of the balloon by the Calais packet as seen through a telescope. |
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A hot-air balloon sails over the headland and is rescued by a passing ship as it collapses. Engraving depicting the Calais Packet rescuing Colonel Brine R.E. and Mr. Joseph Simmons from the Channel after their unsuccessful attempt to cross from England to France by balloon In March 1882 Mr. Joseph Simmons and a Colonel Brine attempted to cross the English Channel on 4th March 1882 from Canterbury to France. They flew across Dover and eight miles off Calais the wind veered and they realised they would be drifting off to the North Sea instead. Simmons decided to ditch in the Channel where, fortunately, they were rescued by a passing packet steamer (the mail packet Foam) and the balloon was recovered. Coloured wood engraving. Iconographic Collections |
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March 1882 date QS:P571,+1882-03-00T00:00:00Z/10 |
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Short title | V0040893 A hot-air balloon sails over the headland and is rescue |
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Author | Wellcome Library, London |
Headline | V0040893 A hot-air balloon sails over the headland and is rescued by |
Copyright holder | Copyrighted work available under Creative Commons Attribution only licence CC BY 4.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ |
Image title | V0040893 A hot-air balloon sails over the headland and is rescued by
Credit: Wellcome Library, London. Wellcome Images images@wellcome.ac.uk http://wellcomeimages.org A hot-air balloon sails over the headland and is rescued by a passing ship as it collapses. Coloured wood engraving. Published: - Copyrighted work available under Creative Commons Attribution only licence CC BY 4.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ |
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