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fter damage by gunfire in Poland, August 1914. 21 1913 Z. VI Taken over by the army. Crashed at Cologne after damage by gunfire over Liege, 6th August 1914. 22 1914 Z. VII Taken over by the army. Crashed in the Argonne after damage by gunfire, August 1914. 23 1914 Z. VIII Taken over by the army. Brought down by gunfire at Badonvillers, 23rd August 1914. 24 1914 L. 3 Taken over by the navy. Wrecked off Fanoe, 17th February 1915. 25 1914 Z. IX Taken over by the army. Dismantled August 1914. The list is full of wreckage; what it does not show is the immense progress made in a few years. As early as 1907 Count Zeppelin made a voyage of eight hours in his third airship, covering 211 miles. In 1909 he voyaged, in stages, from Friedrichshafen to Berlin, landing at Tegel in the presence of the Emperor on the 29th of August, and returning safely to Friedrichshafen by the 2nd of September. But the growing efficiency of the Zeppelin and the growing confidence of the German public are best seen in the records of passenger-carrying flights. The Zeppelin Company, being founded and supported by national enterprise, did not sell any ships to foreign powers. For passenger-carrying purposes it supplied ships to the subsidiary company usually called the Delag (that is, the Deutsche Luftschiffahrt Aktien-Gesellschaft), which had its headquarters at Frankfort-on-the-Main. The Delag acquired six Zeppelin airships, which, unlike the military and naval ships, bore names. A record of the voyages made by the _Viktoria Luise_, the _Hansa_, and the _Sachsen_ will show how rapidly the German people were familiarized with the Zeppelin, and how safe air-travel became, when safety was essential, as it is in all passenger-carrying enterprises. The _Viktoria Luise_ made her first trip on the 4th of March 1912, with twenty-three passengers on board, from Friedrichshafen to Frankfort-on-the-Main--a distance of about two hundred miles, which she covered in seven and a half
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