On the morning of January 19th 1915 two German Imperial Navy Zeppelin airships, the L3 and L4 took off from Fuhlsbüttel in Germany. They had been given orders to attack military and industrial buildings on Humberside. Zeppelin L4 dropped the first bomb to fall on Britain soil at Sheringham, on the north Norfolk coast. Zeppelin L4 was lost over Denmark on February 17, 1915.