Zeppelin LZ 121 Nordstern

Zeppelin LZ 121 was a civilian Y-class airship of the Weimar Republic, nicknamed Nordstern in German service, built by Luftschiffbau Zeppelin at Friedrichshafen as a sister ship of LZ 120 Bodensee. Completed in January 1920, it was 130.8 metres long with a diameter of 18.7 metres and a gas volume of 22,500 cubic metres in 13 cells, and could reach 130 kilometres an hour with four Maybach engines. It was designed to carry about 25 passengers between Friedrichshafen, Berlin and Stockholm, but that route was never opened because the Allies had forbidden Germany to build more Zeppelins. It was given to France as war reparations and left Friedrichshafen on 13 June 1921. Renamed Méditerranée, it served as a civil transport for a year and then with the French Navy for four years before being decommissioned and broken up in August 1926.