LZ 28

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The Zeppelin LZ 28 was Count Zeppelin's 28th airship and the fifth airship of the Imperial Navy .

history

The first trip from LZ 28 took place on September 22, 1914. The navy took over the airship under the military identification L 5.

L 5 was initially used for reconnaissance trips over the North Sea. On October 19, 1914, the airship was near the English coast about 60 kilometers from Yarmouth .

During the English naval advance on December 25, 1914 off the German North Sea coast ( Christmas attack ), L 5 bombed the English submarine E11 . The submarine escaped by alarm diving.

During the battle on the Dogger Bank on January 24, 1915 between German and British naval forces, the L 5 crossed over the combat area, was shot at by British warships and sent its reconnaissance results to the German naval command via radio.

L 5 was particularly successful in tracking down enemy minefields. When a naval airship discovered a single sea ​​mine , it destroyed the mine with machine gun fire. If it was a minefield, the airship dropped small buoys with brightly colored flags on the edges of the field and sent the responsible minesweeper flotilla a message about the minefield by radio. Occasionally the zeppelin landed next to a minesweeper and an officer took over the boat so that the minesweeper could inspect the minefield from the air.

In June 1915, L 5 moved to the Baltic Sea and was stationed in the airship port Seddin from June 15, 1915 . From there, L 5 carried out reconnaissance trips and bomb attacks against Russian targets.

End of LZ 28 / L 5

On August 7, 1915, the airship was so badly damaged by Russian defensive fire during an enemy voyage that it had to be scrapped.

Technical specifications

  • Carrying gas volume: 22,500 m³ hydrogen
  • Length: 158.0 m
  • Diameter: 14.90 m
  • Payload: 9.2 t
  • Drive: three Maybach engines, each 210 hp (154 kW)
  • Speed: 22.5 m / s (81 km / h)

See also

literature

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Frank Omeda: The German aircraft carrier . 2017, pages 92-93
  2. ^ Ernst A. Lehmann : On air patrol and world travel . Wegweiser-Verlag, Berlin 1936, page 97