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Updated: May 16, 2025
As far as it was possible to determine definitely, the number of German airships wrecked from the outbreak of the war up to January 1, 1917, was nineteen. Of these twelve were lost during 1916 as follows: L-19. Wrecked in the North Sea on February 3. Shot down by French guns near Brabant-le-Roi on February 21. Shot down in raid on eastern counties, and sank off Thames estuary on April 1.
Two other Zeppelins, flying at greater height, about ten miles to the north of the scene of the accident, watched the destruction and then continued inland over the French positions, dropping bombs for more than an hour. They returned undamaged to the German lines. Still another Zeppelin, L-19, was lost in the North Sea, on February 2, 1916, while returning from an "invasion" of England.
The L-19, belonging to the German navy, previously had been destroyed by a storm in the North Sea on January 31, 1916. The Lusitania issue, after the dispatch to Germany of the third American note of July 21, 1915, was withdrawn from the publicity in which the exchange of diplomatic communications had been made.
Hit by gunfire from the British antiaircraft batteries or by the Dutch, as some reports have it, for crossing over Dutch territory the L-19 gradually dropped lower and lower until it floated on the surface of the sea. The British trawler, King Stephen, appeared and the crew of the Zeppelin asked to be taken off, and offered to surrender.
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