Zeppelin LZ 41

Zeppelin LZ 41, military designation L 11, was the 41st airship of Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin and the eleventh Zeppelin to serve in the Imperial German Navy. It was the first Zeppelin completed at the new airship yard at Löwental near Friedrichshafen, and made its maiden flight on 7 June 1915. Stationed alternately at Nordholz and Hage, it flew reconnaissance missions over the North Sea and bombing raids against Britain, and during the Battle of Jutland it radioed valuable information on Royal Navy movements while under fire. Under three commanding officers it carried out 31 reconnaissance and 12 bombing missions, dropping 15,543 kilograms of bombs, and was counted among the most successful airships of its class. It was later used for training and was decommissioned at Hage on 25 April 1917 because it had become outdated.