The Archive · 1916

Wreck of a Zeppelin

The Admiralty announces that a fishing-trawler reported today that vit hod seen a Zeppelin over the North Sea in a sinking condition.

A French vessel which has arrived in Hull also saw a wrecked Zeppelin in the North Sea yesterday morning.

The Grimsby trawler King Stephen (162 tons) reporte that early on Wednesday it saw Zep-behn L. 19 with its cars and part of the envelope submerged. A score of men on top of the envelope asked to be taken off, but as they outnumbered the crew of the trawler the skipper refused but came straight to Grimsby to report,

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