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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 Cumbria England as an aerial scout airship for the Royal Navy. She was the first British rigid airship to be built and was constructed in a direct attempt to compete with the German airship programme. Nicknamed “Mayfly” by the lower deck (i.e.