Zeppelin LZ 24

Zeppelin LZ 24, which served as L 3, was a Type M-class Zeppelin, the first standardized wartime model, operated by the Imperial German Navy in the First World War. It made its maiden flight on 11 May 1914 and was the 24th airship constructed by Luftschiffbau Zeppelin and the third delivered to the Navy. It flew 24 reconnaissance missions over the North Sea and, with L 4, made the first airship raid on England on the night of 19 to 20 January 1915, bombing Great Yarmouth; the attack caused the first civilian deaths from an air raid on British soil. On 17 February 1915 it lost its engines in a snowstorm and made an emergency landing on the Danish island of Fanø, where its commander set fire to it and the crew was interned.