Zeppelin LZ54 L 19
First flight : 27 November 1915
Class : P
Raided England on 31 January 1916, dropping 1,600 kg (3,500 lb) of bombs. On 2 February 1916 after a raid on England with three engines failing, it came under Dutch fire and sank in the North Sea , drowning all crew members as nearby English fishing trawler King Stephen refused any help to them. In the last hours Kapitan-Leutnant Loewe and his crew dropped into the sea their last messages , which washed up six months later in Sweden. On 23 April 1916 Torpedo boat G41 attacked and sank the King Stephen, taking its crew prisoner.
Length : 163.5m diam : 18.7m gas volume : 31900 m3
empty weight : 21704 kg gross weight : 37066 kg
power plant : 4x Maybach C-X (later HSLu) of 240 hp
Max.speed : 97.2 km/u range : 4300 km ceiling : 2800m
Bombload : 1600 kg crew : 18 payload : 15286kg
Wrecked L 19 with fishing trawler King Stephen of 162 tons, commanded by William Martin
Literature :
WRECKSITE - KING STEPHEN TRAWLER 1915-1916
