Submarine Scout Zero SSZ.54 at Lowthorpe Mooring Out-Station.
On 11th May 1918 this airship was attempting to land and moor at Lowthorpe airship mooring out-station when it struck trees and was badly damaged, possibly in a gale. The mooring site was behind Church Wood and this wood may well be what it flew into. SSZ54 was taken back to Howden and may still have been under repair either in or next to the sheds when a masive fire destroyed it on 16th August 1918.
The site at Lowthorpe, between Bridlington and Driffield, 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 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 Lowthorpe only had mooring facilities.
Crew - Names unknown.