British blimps operated by the USN

Ensign Phillip Barnes received the Distinguished Flying Cross from King George V during one of those flights.

The SSZ-23 then was transferred to Lowthorpe and completed another 24 operational flights by August, when it returned to Howden where it was destroyed in an accident.

While preparing to mate the old SSZ-23 envelope to a spare control car, the US maintenance crew started a fire which burned the SSZ-23, SSZ-38, SSZ-54 as well as the rigid airship R27.

A replacement airship, also designated SSZ-23 was acquired on 22 November 1917 and was eventually shipped to the United States and erected at Cape May in early February 1919.

N.S.14 was sold to the US in early November 1918 after flying 206 hours in British service and the USN designation NS-1.