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That's really long for what appears to be a non-rigid airship. The Navy class-N ships were about 400 feet long, and I had thought they were the largest non-rigids; this was thirty feet longer and forty years earlier.

1908 Popular Mechanics had 3 successive articles about it.

https://todayinsci.com/Events/Aircraft/MorrellAirship-Collap...

The 2nd interviews Captain Penfold, an Australian balloon pilot that had sunk on-board.

This refers to spacecraft. Is that an accepted term for airship?

Yeah, that's weird. "Morrell constructed a 450-foot spacecraft at the Morrell Airship Company on Market Street. The craft was designed to run by gasoline engines powering wooden propeller blades draped with oiled silk."

I supposed it's possible that was an accepted term in 1908, but this article was written in 2012, so I have to assume it was an error.

I'd taken that to be a commentary on the unusual shape and general uniqueness of the airship - especially for 1908.

Serious nads on anyone willing to climb aboard this thing.

nads would have been a nice addition to that thing.

The Morrell Airship Collapse