Murray Sueter
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Rear-Admiral Sir Murray Fraser Sueter was a Royal Naval officer who was noted as a pioneer of naval aviation and later became a Member of Parliament.
Murray Sueter in 1915
HMA No. 1
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His Majesty's Airship No. 1 was designed and built by Vickers, Sons and Maxim at their works in Barrow-in-Furness, Lancashire, England, as an aerial scout airship for the Royal Navy. It was the first
Murray Sueter
…Sueter's technical skills saw him brought into the Naval Ordnance Department of the Admiralty and in 1909 he supervised the construction of airship Mayfly, a new avenue of naval development. As inspecting captain of airships he oversaw the failure of the experiment but was nonetheless given command of the…
HMA No. 1 Mayfly at its mooring, Barrow-in-Furness (September 1911)
Mayfly emerging from its floating shed on 24 September 1911
HMA No.1 after breaking its back