The Schuette-Lanz dirigible is something like a Zeppelin, but with a framework of bamboo instead of aluminium. There have been eight of these in use since the beginning of the war, and their fate or present condition is shown in the following list:
S L-3—Long since out of service.
S L-4—Struck by lightning in the Baltic.
S L-6—Believed to have fallen into the Baltic.
S L-8—In service in the Baltic.
S L-9—Burned at Stolp.
S L-14—In service in the Baltic.
S L-16—Believed to be still in service.
S L-20—In service.
There was also one Gross semi-rigid dirigible, which was put out of service at the end of February, 1915, and three Parseval non-rigid airships, one of which was destroyed in Russia, the second used as a schoolship, and the third understood to be still in service.