This is a complete list of Zeppelins constructed by the German Zeppelin companies from 1900 until 1938. Other rigid airships that are also sometimes referred to as zeppelins but not built by Zeppelin are not included.
The Zeppelin company based in Friedrichshafen, Germany, numbered their aircraft LZ 1/2/ ..., with LZ standing for "Luftschiff [airship] Zeppelin". Additionally, craft used for civilian purposes were named, whereas military airships were usually given "tactical numbers":
- The Deutsches Heer called its first Zeppelins Z I/II/ ... /XI/XII. During World War I they switched to using LZ numbers, later adding 30 to obscure the total production.
- The Kaiserliche Marine's Zeppelins were labelled L 1/2/ ....
Since 1997, airships of the new type Zeppelin NT have been flying. They are not included here. They are not rigid airships and do not represent a continuity of design from the ones listed here.
Zeppelins finished before World War I
Zeppelins constructed during World War I
Usage: military
September 1917 group photo shows Navy Zeppelin captains: Manger (L 41), von Freudenreich (L 47), Schwonder (L 50), Prölss (L 53), Bockholt (L 57), Peter Strasser (FdL – Führer der Luftschiffe), Gayer (L 49), Stabbert (L 44), Ehrlich (L 35), Dietrich (L 42), Hollender (L 46), Dose (L 51) and Friemel (L 52).
Zeppelins constructed after World War I
See also
Notes
- ^ a b Robinson 1973, p.330.
- ^ a b c d Dooley A.197-A.200.
- ^ Robinson 1973, p.44.
- ^ Robinson 1973 p.48.
- ^ Robinson 1973 pp.51-57
- ^ Robinson 1973 p.56.
- ^ Robinson 1973 p.58.
- ^ a b c d e f g h Robinson 1973, p.331.
- ^ Robinson 1971, p. 15
- ^ "WILL NOT RETARD AVIATION.; American Experts Attribute Accident to Stress of Competition" (PDF). New York Times. 18 October 1913. Retrieved 2 August 2010.
thirty-four soldiers were injured ... She was at anchor before her shed when a gust of wind tore her from her moorings.
- ^ Janes's Pocket Book 7, Airship Development, p82.
- ^ Iwersen, Malene. "There's something in the air" (in Danish). Post & Tele Museum, Denmark. Retrieved 14 December 2012.
- ^ Robinson 1973, p.80.
- ^ "The German Airship Incident". The Times. No. 40178. 5 April 1913. p. 8.
- ^ Robinson 1973, pp. 152-3.
- ^ "That Invading Zeppelin" (PDF). New York Times. 4 May 1913. Retrieved 30 December 2013.
- ^ a b c Lehmann Chapter I
- ^ a b Lehmann Chapter II
- ^ Robinson 1973 p.81.
- ^ Robinson 1973, p.85.
- ^ Lehmann Chapter V
- ^ Thetford 1978, p.286.
- ^ Lehmann Chapter IV
- ^ Robinson 1973, p.332.
- ^ Robinson 1973, p. 94
- ^ Massie, Robert K., Castles of Steel. London, Jonathan Cape, 2004, p.370. ISBN 0 224 04092 8
- ^ a b c d e Robinson 1973, p.333
- ^ Thetford 1978, p.258.
- ^ Robinson 1973, pp.102-3.
- ^ Robinson 1973, p. 333.
- ^ a b Lehmann Chapter V writes 12 tons dropped in October 1915
- ^ Robinson 1973, p. 105.
- ^ Massie, Robert K., Castles of Steel. London, Jonathan Cape, 2004, p. 683. ISBN 0 224 04092 8
- ^ a b c d e "1916 – 0744". Flight Magazine: 740. 31 August 1916. Archived from the original on 15 November 2019. Retrieved 25 September 2009.
LZ 77 Révigny, France ... ... 21.2.1916
- ^ "1916 – 0185". Flight Magazine: 185. 2 March 1916. Archived from the original on 15 November 2019. Retrieved 25 September 2009.
shooting down of the "L 77"
- ^ "1916 – 0186". Flight Magazine: 186. 2 March 1916. Archived from the original on 15 November 2019. Retrieved 25 September 2009.
8.30 p.m. that the airship was reported ... 6,000 ft. ... over Sommeille, using its searchlights for a brief moment. ... flew over Révigny ... The third shell, an incendiary one, found the target. ... came to earth slowly ... no explosion until the Zeppelin touched the ground ... seen by many ... from ... Révigny, ... village of Brabant-le-Roi ... Ten miles away, another Zeppelin, ... watched the fate of its companion and then turned and disappeared. At the same time a third Zeppelin flew over Lunéville and dropped bombs ... German source gives the following details ... carried over twenty of a crew, eight machine guns, and on the overhead platform two 'revolver' guns. Her orders were to bomb the railway junctions behind the front, especially, perhaps for its importance to Verdun (which is only some thirty miles away). ... three aeroplanes accompanied the Zeppelin.
- ^ a b c Robinson 1973, p.334.
- ^ Robinson 1973, p. 113
- ^ a b c Robinson 1973, p. 334
- ^ a b Petre Irimuș (18 December 2013). "Dosarele secrete! Zeppelinele ucigașe de la Timișoara au lovit Bucureștiul, Ploieștiul, Chișinăul și Salonicul" (in Romanian).
- ^ a b c "Das Tragödie von L19" (in German). Zeppelin-Museums Tondern. Archived from the original on 2 July 2002. Retrieved 10 June 2010.
Mit fünfzehn Mann auf der Plattform und dem First des in etwa 3°Ost schwimmenden Körpers des L19 versuche ich eine letzte Berichterstattung. Dreifache Motorhavarie, leichter Gegenwind auf der Rückfahrt verspäteten die Rückkehr und brachten mich in Nebel, dieser nach Holland, wo ich erhebliches Gewehrfeuer erhielt, es wurde schwer, gleichzeitig drei Motorpannen. Am 2. Februar 1916 nachmittags, etwa ein Uhr — ist wohl die letzte Stunde. Loewe
- ^ Inside Out investigates why air raid on Midlands led to British fisherman being accused of war crimes BBC. 15 February 2005. Retrieved 30 July 2008
- ^ Robinson 1973 p. 113.
- ^ Robinson 1973, p.126.
- ^ a b Walter J. Boyne (2003). The influence of air power upon history. Pelican Publishing. p. 107. ISBN 1-58980-034-6.
- ^ Thetford 1978, p.80
- ^ Bruce 1954, p.10.
- ^ Flieger und Luftschiffer – Quirin Gerstl. (In German) the platform observer recollects its first attack on England during which L 34 was lost in flames, and later the loss of L 24.
- ^ a b c d Martin Lockwood, Somewhere Over Essex
- ^ Robinson 1971, p. 252
- ^ Robinson 1971, p. 390
- ^ a b Robinson 1971, p. 389
- ^ a b c d M., Dan. "Disaster at Ahlhorn". Archived from the original on 4 December 2015. Retrieved 3 March 2014.
- ^ Robinson 1971, p 276
- ^ "The Theberton Zeppelin". Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 14 December 2012.
- ^ www.theberton.info
- ^ Swanborough, G. and Bowyers, P. M. United States Navy Aircraft Since 1912. London: Putnam, 1976 (2nd ed.) ISBN 0 85177 838 0, p. 586
- ^ Thetford 1978, p.193-194.
- ^ Airship Heritage Trust – L64
- ^ Thetford 1978, p. 86.
- ^ a b Bennighof, Mike (March 2006). "France's Naval Airship". Retrieved 25 September 2009.
References
- The Airship Heritage Trust. L64 – LZ 109 "V" Class Super Zeppelin
- Bruce, J.M. The Sopwith Pup: Historic Military Aircraft No 6. Flight. 1 January 1954. p. 8-12.
- Castle, Ian (30 May 2018). Zeppelin Onslaught: The Forgotten Blitz, 1914–1915. Pen & Sword Books. ISBN 9781848324350. - Total pages: 384
- Dooley, Sean C., The Development of Material-Adapted Structural Form – Part II: Appendices. THÈSE NO 2986 (2004), École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
- Eckener, Hugo. 1938. Count Zeppelin: The Man and His Work, translated by Leigh Fanell, London -- Massie Publishing Company, Ltd. -- (ASIN: B00085KPWK) (online extract pages 155-157, 210-211)
- Lehmann, Ernst A. (1927). The Zeppelins. The Development of the Airship, with the Story of the Zeppelin Air Raids in the World War. trans. Mingos, Howard. New York: J. H. Sears.
- Lockwood, Martin. "Somewhere over Essex" (PDF). Essex Police Museum. Archived from the original (PDF) on 31 August 2012. Retrieved 14 December 2012.
- Lueger, Otto: Lexikon der gesamten Technik und ihrer Hilfswissenschaften, Bd. 1 Stuttgart, Leipzig 1920., S. 404-412. Luftschiff (German) Retrieved 27 July 2008
- Rimmell, Ray; Preston, Tony. PAST ZEPPELIN L48 PHOTO OF THE MONTH. Theberton and Eastbridge Parish Council. 2008-07-27. URL:http://www.onesuffolk.co.uk/NR/rdonlyres/4EA8A481-F0DE-429A-B9AB-C0A0480FC99A/152695/Z1.doc. Retrieved 27 July 2008. (Archived by WebCite at https://www.webcitation.org/5ZdBiUBed) (Word document) from The Last Flight of the L48, linked from Theberton and Eastbridge Parish Council History.
- Robinson, Douglas H. Giants in the Sky. Henley-on-Thames: Foulis, 1973. ISBN 0-85429-145-8
- Robinson, Douglas H. The Zeppelin in Combat (3rd ed). Henley-on-Thames: Foulis, 1971. ISBN 0-85429-130-X
- Thetford, Owen. British Naval Aircraft since 1912. London: Putnam, Fourth edition, 1978. ISBN 0-370-30021-1.
- www.theberton.info/timewatch.htm, Zeppelin, German zeppelin pictures, L48, LZ95, zeppelin crash ...
- M., Dan. "Disaster at Ahlhorn". Archived from the original on 4 December 2015. Retrieved 3 March 2014.
External links
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Zeppelin airships.
- Airships.net Detailed information and photographs (interior and exterior), primarily about commercial Zeppelins
- eZEP.de — The webportal for Zeppelin mail and airship memorabilia
- silhoeuttes of important Zeppelins from 1900 to 1919, Lueger 1904–1920, shows LZ: 1,3,5,6,8,10,13,14,18,21,23,25,26,36,40,59,62,91,94,95,100,104,113,120
- Important airship types, Lueger 1904–1920, Table 1 lists data on selected Zeppelins
- fengatesroad.com story of L21's last flight
- Luftschiffe in Tondern Archived 1 December 2010 at the Wayback Machine – illustrated list of Zeppelins stationed at Tønder
- LZ 3 Photographs by Franz Stoedtner: perspective; cross-section and front elevation; exiting the hangar
- LZ 4 Photographs by Franz Stoedtner: Z4 climbing; view of empennage over the water
- LZ 10 Photographs by Franz Stoedtner: over the Havel river
- Z IV crew showing their Iron Crosses
- This photograph on 19 March 1918 shows 32 crew with Kapitänleutnant Friemel. Selected L 52 crew photographs: Flieger und Luftschiffer - Quirin Gerstl, Flieger und Luftschiffer - Quirin Gerstl, Flieger und Luftschiffer - Quirin Gerstl, Flieger und Luftschiffer - Quirin Gerstl and Flieger und Luftschiffer - Quirin Gerstl.
- (Luftschifferalltag Christmas celebration table under the LZ 81 in its hangar)