Its grace over towns like Bournemouth and the hills of the Purbecks is one of Dorset's most incongruous visual footnotes.

88 years ago today, it rained fire from the sky over the Shore. As the largest airship ever built, the LZ-129 − better known as the Hindenburg − tried to dock in Lakehurst after a trans-Atlantic ...

In May 1937, the Hindenburg suddenly burst into flames, killing thirty-five and the dream of commercial airship travel. “Oh, the humanity and all the passengers screaming around here. I told you, I ...

It was the pinnacle of luxury travel - the German airship Hindenburg offered passengers a $7,000 ticket to glide above the Atlantic in unmatched comfort. But on May 6, 1937, that dream turned into a ...

On May 6, 1937, the German airship Zeppelin LZ 129 Hindenburg burst into flames in Lakehurst, New Jersey, while the airship was landing. On May 6, 1937, the Hindenburg caught fire and was destroyed in ...

One of the greatest airship disasters in history took place right here in New Jersey when the LZ 129 Hindenburg burst into flames in skies above Lakehurst on May 6, 1937. From the iconic newsreel ...

It was an unavoidably real, uncannily surreal moment, as the pride of Nazi engineering met the historic port of the British Empire.

Only 75 years ago Herbert Morrison gave the country it’s first taste of “live reporting” when his emotional account of the German passenger airship LZ 129 Hindenburg disaster was aired on WLS Chicago ...

Around 86 years ago, a German airship, the Hindenburg, crashed in Lakehurst, New Jersey. The disaster still resonates, thanks to newsreel footage and the dramatic recording made by radio broadcaster ...

As we near the 75th anniversary of the Hindenburg disaster, the Smithsonian shares its discovery of the sole surviving map of the airship's final voyage. "Found: Letters from the Hindenburg," a ...