to reach the coast before
day was breaking.

Near the Norfolk coast she apparently succeeded in effecting repairs,
and, after passing through gunfire from the land defenses, which
claimed to have made a hit, proceeded east at high speed and at an
altitude of over 8,000 feet. She was attacked nine miles out at sea by
four machines of the British Royal Naval Air Service, while gunfire
was opened from an armed British trawler, and the airship was finally
brought down in flames.

During December, 1916, no Zeppelins were apparently used actively. As
far as it was possible to determine definitely, the number of German
airships wrecked from the outbreak of the war up to January 1, 1917,
was nineteen. Of these twelve were lost during 1916 as follows:

_L-19._ Wrecked in the North Sea on February 3.

_L-77._ Shot down by French guns near Brabant-le-Roi on February 21.

_L-15._ Shot down in raid on eastern counties, and sank off Thames
estuary on April 1.

_L-20._ Wrecked near Stavanger on May 3.

Unnamed airship. Destroyed by British warships off Schleswig on May 4.

Unnamed airship. Brought down by Allied warships at Saloniki on May 5.

_L-21._ Burned and wrecked near Enfield, September 3.

_L-32_ and _L-33_. Brought down in Essex, September 24.

Airship brought down at Potter's Bar, October 1.

Two airships brought down in flames off the east coast, November
27-28.

Another list, based on an article published in the "Journal of the
Proceedings of the United States Naval Institute," yields a total of
thirty-eight Zeppelins as having been destroyed since the outbreak of
the war. Of this number the loss of thirty was said to have been
authenticated.

Of the larger total (38) 5 were destroyed in 1914, 17 in 1915, and 16
in 1916. Of these 4 were lost in France, 6 in Russia, 7 in Belgium, 7
in England, 1 in Denmark, 1 in Norway, 1 in the Balkans, 5 in the
East, and 6 in Germany.

No further activities of Zeppelins were reported during January, 1917,
except that it was announced unofficially on January 3, 1917, that two
Zeppelins had been destroyed at Tondern, Schleswig, by a fire due to
defective electric wiring in a recently constructed double shed.

To sum up the losses in aeroplanes incurred by the various
belligerents during the six months' period, August, 1916, to February,
1917, is practically impossible. Figures are available for a few
months only, and they are not only unofficial, but come from all kinds