Submarine Scout Zero SSZ.32 at Kirkleatham Airship Mooring Out-Station.
On 6th October 1918 this airship is believed to have been damage whilst moored at Kirkleatham and was not repaired. It was normally housed at Howden but Kirkleatham had a mooring site for airships. The site was renamed Kirkleatham on 27th August 1918 to avoid confusion with the aeroplane aerodrome at Redcar itself. The site at Kirkleatham was a mooring out-station under control of RAF Howden. It was used by the parent station at Howden as purely a mooring facility to allow mooring to airships undertaking submarine spotting duties off the Yorkshire and Durham coast and to moor safely without having to return all the way to Howden. Howden had massive sheds to properly house the airships as well as mooring masts but the site at Kirkleatham only had mooring facilities.