Battlebags: British Airships of the First World War; Author: Mowthorpe, Ces; Paperback

Author: Mowthorpe, Ces
Paperback; Illustrations, Map, Plans, Bibliography
214 pages
Published: January 1998
Sutton Publishing Ltd
ISBN: 0750915188

A fully illustrated history of the Royal Naval Air Service airships, affectionately named battlebags by their crews and pigs by the local civililan inhabitants, which became mighty weapons against the deadly German Uboat menace in World War I.The proud boast of the Royal Naval Air Service was that no ship was ever sunk that their airships escorted. At least 226 airships of all types were built and operated by the Royal Air Navy during the war against the deadly German Uboat, while non-rigid airships performed a crucial role in anti-submarine patrols off British coastal watersand in the Mediterranean. This book delves into each class of airship, including where they were built and stationed, their known crews, plus technical information and particulars of notable flights aFirst book to describe and describe in detail every single airship built or used by Great Britain during the First World War This text describes the development of the airship in the years leading up to World War I and in the years that followed. The background to each class is given together with details of individual airships, including where they were built and stationed, their crews and technical information.