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Launch ceremony for Zeppelin LZ127 'Graf Zeppelin' mb-code LW001723 The plate is inscribed: 'TheLaunch ceremony for Zeppelin LZ127 'Graf Zeppelin', Friedrichshafen, Germany, 9th July 1928 (1933). The 'Graf Zeppelin' was the most successful airship ever built. Between its first flight in 1928 and retirement in 1937, it made 590 flights and covered over a million miles. A photograph from Zeppelin Weltfahrten, Vom ersten Luftschiff 1899 bis zu den Fahrten des LZ127 Graf Zepplin 1932, Dresden, 1933.