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...While their airship Norge gathered her strength at Leningrad for the hop from Europe to Spitzbergen, Explorers Amundsen and Ellsworth disembarked from their steamer in ice-choked Kings Bay and set about unloading a cargo of hydrogen gas, food, and other materials. A mooring mast was standing, and a hangar going up, to receive the Norge, which was expected very shortly with her crew of 16 men and one terrier-mascot...
...Some 300 men are needed to get the Los Angeles into her hangar...
...Gulf of Finland? If south, please hold arms aloft; if north, cross arms." The gapers lifted their arms uncrossed. The nearest railway station was that of a village near Riga, in Latvia. That evening, 12 hours behind schedule, the Norge loomed through the dusk and was hauled into a hangar near the Gatchina Palace, outside of Leningrad. Hundreds of Soviet soldiers had to struggle in three feet of snow to get her berthed...
...many men are needed to get the Los Angeles into her hangar...
Amundsen. Pomp, fanfares, Premier Mussolini, foreign military attaches and "all the Norwegians in Rome" attended the formal translation of the semirigid Italian dirigible Enone into the Norge, in its hangar at the Ciampino Airdrome at Rome. The distinguished company gathered about the air leviathan's cabin while Mrs. Hjalmar Riiser-Larsen, wife of the ship's second-in-command, performed the orthodox rite with a bottle of bubbling wine, and Dr. Rolf Thormessen stood by to receive the vessel in the name of the Aero Club of Norway. A silk flag from King Haakon and Queen Maud was run aloft...