Author: H.G. HAWKER and Com. Kenneth MACKENZIE GRIEVE
Title: Luncheon Menu and Commemoration.
Description: [The Daily Mail], 1919. Folded card, 255 x 195 mm. The Daily Mail offered a prize of £10,000 for the first flight across the Atlantic. Hawker and Grieve set off from Mount Pearl, Newfoundland in a Sopwith Atlantic biplane. After fourteen and a half hours of flight the engine overheated and they were forced to change course to intercept the shipping lanes where they were able to locate a passing freighter, the Danish Mary. As the ship did not have functioning radio it was not until the steamer reached the Butt of Lewis six days later, that word was received that they were safe. Hawker and Grieve received a consolation prize of £5,000 from the Daily Mail. The aeroplane was later found afloat and recovered. A month later, Alcock and Brown completed the first crossing in a time of under 16 hours less than a month later.

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