Permit me to suggest the claim on Wikipedia that His Majesty's Airship Number One "provided valuable technical experience for British airship designers" is an overly sunny assessment of the featured predicament.
@DreadShips Did it ever actually get off the ground? I'm thinking not.
@anne_twain No, it didn't. Initially it was three tons overweight, so a programme of removing essential bits and pieces started. One piece lost was the keel, which almost certainly contributed to the airship essentially snapping in half when caught by a crosswind as they took it out of the shed.