GERMAN MILITARY CLASS—GROSS-BASENACH. (Semi-rigid)

Up to date, these ve els have been designed by Major Gro and Oberingenieur Basenach. The utmost secrecy is observed as to their details. The system of employing 2 ballonets has been borrowed from the Parseval type, and presumably the Parseval system of working the automatic valves has also been adopted. In all other features, these ships appear to resemble the French Lebaudy type, the shape of the hulls being rather better. List of ships built, re-built and re-building of this type:— | 1 | = Aeronautical Society. | (1,800 m³) non-effective. | | 2 | (reconstructed) | = M 1, Military. | (6,000 m³) | | 3 | " | = M 2, Military. | (6,000 m³) | | 4 | " | = M 3, Military. | (9,000 m³) | | 5 | " | = M 4, Military. | (12,000 m³) | 154