feet; then the motors failed, the helm jammed; when the ship attempted
to descend the ground was frozen and the anchors would not hold, it was
driven against some trees, and a high wind arising in the night made it
a total wreck.

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The following list shows the number of Zeppelin airships built up to the
outbreak of the war, and the fate of each of them:

_Zeppelin _Year of
No._ Completion_ _Name_ _Remarks_

1 1900 L.Z.I Broken up after experiments spring
1901.
2 1905 L.Z. II Wrecked January 1906.
3 1906 Z. I Taken over by the army. Broken
up February 1913.
4 1908 L.Z. IV Burnt August 1908.
5 1909 Z. II Taken over by the army. Wrecked
April 1910.
6 1909 L.Z. VI Burnt September 1910.
7 1910 _Deutschland_ Wrecked June 1910.
8 1911 _Ersatz_ Wrecked May 1911.
_Deutschland_
9 1911 Ersatz Taken over by the army. Broken
Z. II up summer 1914.
10 1911 _Schwaben_ Wrecked June 1912.
11 1912 _Viktoria_ Wrecked June 1915.
_Luise_
12 1912 Z. III Taken over by the army. Broken
up summer 1914.
13 1912 _Hansa_ Broken up summer 1916.
14 1912 L. I Taken over by the navy. Wrecked
September 1913.
15 1913 Ersatz Taken over by the army. Wrecked
Z. I March 1913.
16 1913 Z. IV Taken over by the army. Broken
up spring 1916.
17 1913 _Sachsen_ Broken up spring 1916.
18 1913 L. 2 Taken over by the navy. Burnt
October 1913.
19 1913 Ersatz Taken over by the army. Wrecked
E.Z. I June 1914.
20 1913 Z. V Taken over by the army. Crashed
a