Zeppelin LZ 76

Zeppelin LZ 76, tactical number L 33, was an R-class Zeppelin of the First World War, which the source describes as an airship of the Imperial German Army. In the raid on London on the night of 23 September 1916, together with LZ 72, L 32 and L 34, it was damaged by anti-aircraft fire on its first mission and its commander, Kapitänleutnant Alois Böcker, changed course over Essex, where 39 Home Defence Squadron night fighters from Hainault Farm attacked it. Even after dropping guns and equipment he judged that the ship could not cross the North Sea, and he landed at Little Wigborough in Essex on the morning of 24 September 1916 with no fatalities. The crew set out to destroy the airship but only partly burned the hull. British engineers examined the skeleton and used its plans as a basis for the airships R33 and R34.