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Airship Number L03 (LZ24)

The airships of the Zeppelin Company were cigar-shaped, with the maximum diameter being reached at one-eighth of the overall length. The diameter stays constant to about the last one-eighth of the ship’s length, where it reduces to the tail.  The ship is a “rigid airship” in that it has an aluminum, or duralumin, skeleton and a keel along the bottom, from which all of the ship’s weight was carried – crew, gondolas, ordnance, ballast, fuel, radio, etc.

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Airship NumberL03 (LZ24)
ManufacturerZeppelin Company
Military BranchNavy
Assigned Base(s)Fuhlbûttel, Nordholz
Beginning Service DateMay 11, 1914
Last Service DateFebruary 17, 1915
Postal MarkingDanish Censor Marking (Rose), Odense, Denmark; Datestamp 05/02/16
Dispatch TypePersonal
Value$$$$

Notes

First airship over England.  768 flights.

Most unusual cover from the Zeppelin Crew.  Interned in Denmark, where they crash-landed in an effort to return to their Nordholz Base. Denmark was neutral, not a belligerent.   Repatriated at war’s end.

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