Post card of an Airship in the Sea

[themonsstar]

Any one have any info on this post card. Cheers Roy

[Adrian Roberts]

Roy

As you say, a drawing; the representation of the airship is rather vague e.g. no indication of engine/crew nacelles.

Several airships came down in the sea, including Navy vessel L15 that stranded in the Thames estuary after being hit by AAA, 1st April 1916. The other examples were further out to sea; the fact that there are several small river craft shown suggests that the picture is of this incident. The crew were taken POW, which may tie in with the apparent ladder leading up to the hull

Adrian

[themonsstar]

Hi Adrian

Cheers its a start

[FAAAEd]

Any one have any info on this post card. Cheers Roy

Not so sure about the suggestion that the drawing depicts 'small river craft'.

The vessel centre left looks very much like a bows on view of a WW1 era British destroyer with typical large bridge structure and the dark vertical line, more of a smudge, on the starboard side could be the break of the fo'c'sle. The vessel at front right is a typical trawler of the type, e.g. HMT Kingfisher, used to operate aircraft on anti-zeppelin and anti-submarine patrols. I wonder if the 'ladder-like' structure is in fact the wreck of the aircraft that brought down the zeppelin.

The smaller craft, with figures in it - probably rowing, are likely to be ship's boats from the two vessels.