Crossword-Solution: BLIMPS 6 letters, 25 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 12

After its failure, the Naval Air Service bought an Astra-Torres airship from France and a Parseval from Germany, both of which proved very useful in the early days of the War, doing patrol work over the Channel before the Blimps came into being.

Sea planes carrying bombs, small dirigible balloons known as "blimps," observation balloons moored on the decks of warships, steel nets, and especially devised anti-submarine mines, were also factors in the general work of submarine destruction.

NETS TO ENTANGLE THE SEA SHARKS OF WAR--"CHASERS" OR "SKIMMING-DISH" BOATS--"BLIMPS" AND SEAPLANES--HUNTING THE SUBMARINE WITH "LANCE," BOMB AND GUN--A SAILOR'S DESCRIPTION.

They know jolly well that if they once come inside, no matter if they do sink a ship or two, that it's a hundred to one--between sea-planes, 'blimps,' P.B.s, and destroyers--against their ever getting out again.

When the United States joined the big battle, he had gone into her air corps to become one of the army’s crack flyers, with plenty of enemy planes and blimps to his credit.