* * * * * 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 after 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.