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Zeppelin LZ11 Viktoria Luise
Class : G
First flight : 19 February 1912 into service : 04 March 1912
Operator : DELAG
It was named after the Kaiser’s youngest daughter. It made 489 passenger flights, flying 54312 km and carrying 9738 passengers ( average 111 km and 20 passengers for each trip) till August 1914 when it was taken over by the military.
On 18 June 1912 the LZ11 made a flight over the Netherlands. It took off at 04:45 hours in the morning at Dusseldorf and it flew via Nijmegen and at 6.50 hours over Blaricum in NW-direction, taken it close to Amsterdam. A board were 2 German officers of the Kriegsmarine and 7 officers of the OHL . They had a clear view (probably also photographs were taken) of the Dutch defence systems ( Stelling van Amsterdam ) from the air and the Dutch military staff was not pleased with this compromise. The Zeppelin carried on and flew via Volendam and Leeuwarden till Hamburg were the journey ended after 12 hours flight.
After used by DELAG , taken over as a training airship by the German military upon the outbreak of World War I; broke apart while being hangared on 1 October 1915 at Leignitz (now Legnica, Poland )
Victoria Luise seen flying over it’s shed at Fuhlsbuttel – GroB Borstel
Length : 148m diameter : 14m gas volume : 18700 m3 useful load : 5500 kg
Engines : 3x Maybach C-X 145ps each, cruise speed : 61 km/h max.speed : 72 km/h
Crew : 6 passengers : 20
Literature :
De oorlog in de lucht en in de ruimte deel 1 page 66
Stelling van Amsterdam • Duits Luchtschip Viktoria Luise (stelling-amsterdam.nl)
Piston-engined airliners page 6
Microsoft Word - Echo-artikel.doc (marsethistoria.nl)
