Source: File: A Giant Zeppelin. See an original image
at: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Zeppelins>
[Accessed 7 August 2016]
[Accessed 7 August 2016]
Equal to German sea ambitions,
Another generation of Zeppelin
Airships took to the skies - seen
As giant cruisers, that by some
Alternative time of Trans Ocean
Service, to link German to America.
Via the World New York news
From Berlin, told of machines
And pride of their inventor; these
Next developments in Zeppelin
Told of their gigantic proportion -
Able to move at great heights.
Zeppelins to number 8, set
Out on a mission to menace
The English - L.11, L.14, L.16
L.17 L.22 L.31 among these -
Giant air ships broke form to
Giant air ships broke form to
Separate along English coast.
At Suffolk L.11 took a path
Inland over river Debden -
To drop bombs on Bawdsey.
By flares at Kirton awoke
A searchlight on the craft,
Who replied with 4 bombs.
Likely mistaking the river
Debden for the river Orwell
L.11 turning direction,
Next to appear at Felixstowe,
In game of back and forth
Over ground, under fire.
By 2 a.m. L11 made it over
Harwich Harbour, to drop
A bomb onto Landguard
Fort - damaging windows
And tents, to flee 2.35 a.m.
Fired at by Shingle St. guns.
Fired at by Shingle St. guns.
Wind sucking power enabled
Zeppelins faster speeds, to tell
How one of these returned
From a trip over England, of
237 odd miles, within two
Hours, after a bomb delivery.
By Jamie Mann.
Anon.,1916. Gigantic
Zeppelins - German Boasts. The Daily Telegraph, [online] 5 August 1916. P.9. Col.2. Available at:
<http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/ww1-archive/12212487/Daily-Telegraph-August-5-1916.html>
[Accessed: 7 August 2016].
Source: File:
Zeppelin Raids, Gothas And 'Giants' - Britain's First Blitz 1914-1918.
Available at: <http://www.iancastlezeppelin.co.uk/89-aug-1916-1/4592178832>
[Accessed 7 August 2016]
Mann, J., 2016. 100 years Ago - Poems by Jamie Mann. [letter] (Personal
communication, 7 August 2016).
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