LZ 33

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The Zeppelin LZ 33 was Count Zeppelin's 33rd airship and the eighth airship of the Imperial Navy .

history

The first run of LZ 33 took place on December 17, 1914. The navy took over the airship under the military identification L 8.

L 8 was mainly used for reconnaissance trips in the west.

On March 5, 1915, L 8 was fired upon by artillery when returning from a voyage over the North Sea while crossing the front line too low near the Flemish Nieuwpoort . Four gas cells lost their lifting gas. The airship wanted to reach its port of operation in Düren , but bad weather and heavy rain forced the zeppelin to descend in Brabant near Tienen . The crew anchored the damaged ship, but the storm damaged it so badly within a few hours 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: 22.4 m / s

See also

literature

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

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Ernst A. Lehmann : On air patrol and world travel . Wegweiser-Verlag, Berlin 1936, pages 91-92