Jenny Haniver (airship)
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The Jenny Haniver is the name of an airship featured heavily in Philip Reeve's Hungry City Chronicles. She is a small cargo airship with a crimson envelope.
Anna Fang built the airship when she was a slave in the junkyards of Arkangel, sneaking away bits and pieces and eventually assembling it in full. When the airship was complete, she escaped in it and began her life as an Anti-Tractionist spy, using her cover as a trader to spy on Traction Cities.
When Fang is killed at the end of Mortal Engines, Thomas Natsworthy and Hester Shaw "inherit" the Jenny, and start their own lives as traders. After two years, the Jenny is stolen by Nimrod Pennyroyal at the climax of Predator's Gold.
Pennyroyal later becomes the mayor of Brighton, and the Jenny Haniver is put on display as the ship he escaped from the Arctic in. At the climax of Infernal Devices, Tom and Hester steal it back and escape the city in it.
It then become a trading airship for Tom and his daughter Wren, and is used as their means of conveyance in the final book, A Darkling Plain. As they approach their final battle, they are attacked by Stalker birds, and the Jenny explodes and crashes.
| Hungry City Chronicles, by Philip Reeve | |
|---|---|
| Books: | Mortal Engines, Predator's Gold, Infernal Devices, A Darkling Plain |
| Characters: | Tom Natsworthy, Hester Shaw, Wren Natsworthy, Shrike, Anna Fang, Nimrod Pennyroyal, Theo Ngoni |
| Organisations: | Traction Cities, Traktionstadtsgesellschaft, Anti-Traction League, Green Storm |
| Other: | Municipal Darwinism, Sixty Minute War, Stalkers, Jenny Haniver |
