Zeppelin LZ 55

Zeppelin LZ 55, with the army tactical number LZ 85, was a P-class Zeppelin of the Imperial German Army in the First World War. On 5 May 1916 it made another attack on the harbour of Thessaloniki during the Salonika campaign; caught in searchlights, it was fired on by all the ships in the area, and a 12-pounder anti-aircraft gun of the old British battleship HMS Agamemnon hit it, breaking it in half according to one of the crew. It crashed in the swamps at the mouth of the Vardar River west of Thessaloniki and its crew were captured. The metal structure was dragged out by Allied soldiers and reconstructed at the White Tower of Thessaloniki so that Allied engineers could study how the Germans built airships.