Hindenburg: The Blessing Of The Titanic

At 7:45 am on the morning of Wednesday 5, May, 1937, Mackay radio relayed weather warnings from three ships at sea to Hindenburg. One of the warnings, coincidentally, was from the Britannic, the sister ship to the Titanic [9]. It told of light rains extending down the eastern seaboard of North America but shortly after this communication, an electrical disturbance caused a wireless blackout for several hours. The Hindenburg continued on uneventfully, passing close to Titanic’s grave site, until late in the afternoon when the passengers could see the lighthouses of Cape Race and white icebergs contrasting against the surrounding gray seas. Breakfast on that fateful Thursday found the Hindenburg over Boston making directly for her New Jersey destination.
However, any such blessing was a mixed one since Lakehurst continued to still be plagued by rains. Its mast was the only close location at which Hindenburg could dock. The next available site, many hundreds of miles away, was in Akron, Ohio. Typically, to save on ground crew costs, landings were planned for specific times and since the 6:00 am window had already passed, most of the Lakehurst professional personnel had now become aware that the giant airship would not be landing, at least until much later that afternoon