High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The airship L.19 (also known as the LZ 54) was a World War I, Zeppelin of the German Kaiserliche Marine (Imperial Navy). While returning from her first bombing raid on the United Kingdom in early-1916, she came down in the North Sea. Her crew survived the crash, but drowned after the crew of a British fishing vessel refused to rescue them; at the time, this was a widely–reported and notorious incident.