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Graf Zeppelin

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LZ 127 Graf Zeppelin Round-the-World flight

At the behest of American newspaper publisher William Randolph Hearst, whose media empire was the major commercial backer of the project with four staffers among the flight's nine passengers, the LZ 127 Graf's "Round-the-World" (Weltrundfahrt 1929) flight on August 8th, 1929, officially began and ended at Lakehurst Naval Air Station in New Jersey.
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RE: Graf Zeppelin

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A search for oil in the Baltic Sea has turned up the wreck of the German World War 2 aircraft carrier Graf Zeppelin, whose whereabouts had been a mystery since it was sunk by the Soviet navy after the war.

A research ship belonging to Polish oil company Petrobaltic found the 250-metre wreck 55km north of the Polish port Wladyslawowo.

"We were searching for oil deposits and sonar showed an object shaped like a ship" - Marcin Zachowicz, spokesperson for Polish oil group Lotos, which owns Petrobaltic.

A Polish Navy ship, sent to the site, identified the wrecked ship as the Graf Zeppelin, which was captured by the Soviet navy, used for target practice and sunk as part of a training exercise in 1947.
The Graf Zeppelin was Germany's only aircraft carrier in the war. Its final resting place had been a mystery, although fishermen had for years torn their nets in the waters where it lay, the Lotos spokesperson said.
Poland's navy said it was unlikely the wreck would be recovered from depths of more than 80m.

"According to tradition, shipwrecks are left in the sea. Besides, it would be technically hard to pull it out." - Bartosz Zajda, navy spokesperson.

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