Page "Imperial German Navy" Paragraph 57

The machine had insufficient range ( 1440 km ) to operate over Britain, but had machine guns for use against aircraft and experimental 80 kg bombs.

The following year ten more were purchased and a new naval air division was created at Johannisthal, near Berlin.

However, in September 1913 L1 was destroyed in a storm, while the following month L2 was lost in a gas explosion.

Orders for the undelivered machines were cancelled, leaving the navy with one machine, the L3.