LZ 11 Viktoria Luise

Viktoria Luise, hull number LZ 11, was a Zeppelin passenger airship operated by the airline DELAG and named after Princess Victoria Louise of Prussia. It was a sister ship of LZ 10 Schwaben with minor improvements, including better steering and an extra eight-metre segment, and measured 148 metres long and 14 metres in diameter with a gas volume of 18,700 cubic metres in 18 cells. Three Maybach engines gave a cruise speed of 61 kilometres an hour and a top speed of 72. It made its maiden flight on 14 February 1912 and its first passenger flight on 4 March 1912, serving destinations such as Heligoland, Hamburg and Copenhagen. Before the First World War it completed 489 passenger flights carrying 9,738 people, and it made over 1,400 flights in all. It was transferred to the Imperial German Army as a training ship and was destroyed in its hangar at Liegnitz on 8 October 1915.