Zeppelin LZ 46

Zeppelin LZ 46 was the 46th airship built by Count Zeppelin and the fourteenth operated by the Imperial German Navy, with the tactical number L 14, and belonged to the Zeppelin P class. The article calls it the most successful naval airship: it conducted 17 bombing raids on England and 42 reconnaissance missions and dropped 22,045 kilograms of bombs on English targets, operating mainly from Nordholz and Hage. Its first bombing mission was on 17 August 1915, and in the squadron raid of 8 to 9 September 1915 aimed at London it missed its target and bombed Norwich. After it became outdated it was stored in its hangar at Nordholz, and on 23 June 1919, two days after the scuttling of the German High Seas Fleet, its crew destroyed it by breaking its suspension equipment. Its original gondola was displayed in a Berlin aviation museum in the 1930s.