coastals

Updated: May 19, 2025

For work farther out at sea and in all weathers, airships known as the coast patrol type, and more commonly as 'coastals, were built, and later the 'N.S. or North Sea type, still larger and more weather-worthy, followed. By the time the last year of the War came, Britain led the world in the design of non-rigid and semi-rigid dirigibles.

W. Lockwood (William Lockwood) Marsh - A History of Aeronautics