Zeppelin LZ 95

Zeppelin LZ 95, tactical number L 48, was a U-class Zeppelin of the Imperial German Military, designed with its sister ships to fly as high as 20,000 feet. It completed one successful reconnaissance mission. It joined an attempted attack on London with L 42, L 44, L 45 and L 47, commanded by George Eichler on his thirteenth raid, but became lost and was intercepted by Second Lieutenant Loudon Pierce Watkins, a Canadian pilot of No. 37 Squadron of the Royal Flying Corps flying a B.E.12. Watkins shot it down over water near Great Yarmouth on 17 June 1917 and it crashed near Theberton in Suffolk; there were three survivors, and the rest of the crew were buried at St Peter's Church, Theberton, and later reburied at Cannock Chase. Of the seven Zeppelins shot down over England in 1917, L 48 was the only one brought down by the Royal Flying Corps home defence.