LZ 21

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The Zeppelin LZ 21 was Count Zeppelin's 21st airship and the ninth airship of the German Army .

history

LZ 21 made its first voyage on November 10, 1913. The airship was given the name Z VI as a military identifier.

At the beginning of the First World War in early August 1914, Z VI was stationed in Cologne . During the conquest of Liège , Z VI carried out a night bombing raid on the forts of the city, which was probably the first air raid of the world war. On August 5th at 10 p.m. the zeppelin took off from Cologne, laden with 200 kg of explosives. The bombing took place at 3 a.m. on August 6, 1914, killing nine civilians. Hit by several shrapnel from the defensive fire, the airship had to make an emergency landing in a forest near Bonn due to severe gas loss . Since the damage could no longer be repaired, Z VI was scrapped on site.

Technical specifications

  • Carrying gas volume: 20,900 m³ hydrogen
  • Length: 148.0 m
  • Diameter: 16.60 m
  • Payload: 8.8 t
  • Drive: three Maybach motors of 180 hp each
  • Speed: 21.0 m / s (75.6 km / h)

See also

literature

  • Peter Meyer: Airships - The History of the German Zeppelins. Wehr & Wissen, Koblenz / Bonn 1980.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ See Holger H. Herwig: The Marne, 1914. The Opening of World War I and the Battle That Changed the World. New York 2011, p. 110; Reichsarchiv (ed.): The border battles in the west (The World War 1914 to 1918, Volume 1). Berlin 1925, p. 115.
  2. ↑ http://www.luftfahrtarchiv-koeln.de/ , entry '5. August 1914 '
  3. ↑ The airship attack ends in the forest