Zeppelin LZ58 L25 (LZ88)
Note the registration L25 on the nose ! First it carried reg. LZ88 till 1917
First flight : 14 November 1915
Class : P
German naval airship L25. Completed Potsdam; commissioned on 14 November 1915. Capacity 31905 [m3]. Length 163.5m; diameter 18.7m feet. Four 240hp Maybach engines. Speed 98 km/hr. ceiling 3901m
Old LZ88 reconstructed, renamed L 25 and recommissioned 19 January 1917. Broken up at Potsdam, Germany 15 September 1917.
14 reconnaissance missions; 3 attacks dropping 4,249 kg (9,367 lb) of bombs along the Western Front. It flew missions during the early phase of the Battle of Verdun in support of the German army and missions over the Nordsee and England. It had registration LZ88. In January 1917 it was handed to the German Navy who used it for experimental purposes. It received a new registration L25.
Decommissioned in September 1917.
Literature :
GERMAN NAVAL AIRSHIP L.25 | Imperial War Museums (iwm.org.uk)
Das grosse Luftschiffbuch – Peter Meyer page 89
