Zeppelin LZ 50

Zeppelin LZ 50 was the 50th airship built by Count Zeppelin and served in the Imperial German Navy as L 16, a P-class military airship. It is considered one of the most successful naval airships of the war, with 12 bombing raids on England and 44 reconnaissance missions to its credit, and a total of 18,048 kilograms of bombs dropped on British targets. Its main base was Nordholz. In the winter of 1916 it delivered food to the German North Sea islands when ice blocked the sea routes. After a crash landing at Brunsbüttel on 19 October 1917 it had to be dismantled. The source gives a gas volume of 31,900 cubic metres and a length of 163 metres.