for help, disbelieving their promises of good conduct, and refusing their offers of money, Martin sailed away. He later said he intended to search for a Royal Navy ship to report his discovery to. However, he met none. The encounter with L 19 was reported to the British authorities on his return to King Stephens home port of Grimsby. No official action on the supposed illegal fishing is recorded to have been taken, however, the vessel did not fish again and later became a Q-boat. The weather was worsening as King Stephen departed and the Zeppelin remained afloat for only a few hours. During this time, L 19s crew threw a bottle with messages into the sea. Discovered six months later by Swedish fishermen at Marstrand, the bottle contained personal last messages from the airmen to their families and a final report from Löwe. Royal Navy ships made a search of the area, but they found no trace of the Zeppelin or her crew. The body of one of the Germans washed ashore four months later at Løkken in Denmark. In 1964, a journalist researching the incident checked Admiralty archives and interviewed two surviving members of King Stephens crew. This revealed that Martin had indeed been fishing in a forbidden zone and had initially given the naval authorities a false position for the Zeppelin in order to conceal this, making the Royal Navy search for the airship futile. The incident received worldwide publicity and divided British public opinion. Captain Martin was condemned by many for leaving the German airmen to die. Others, including Arthur Winnington-Ingram, the Bishop of London, praised Martin for placing the safety of his crew first and not trusting the promises of the Germans. Some elements of the Allied press viewed the Germans' deaths as just "retribution" for their bombing of civilian targets. German airship crews, sometimes referred to as "baby killers" or "pirates" because of their bombing of civilians, were the subject of intense Allied propaganda and public hatred. Martin was vilified by the German press, as was the Bishop of London for supporting him. The encounter between the L 19 and King Stephen also featured in German propaganda. The scene was recreated for a German propaganda film and illustrated by an anti-British medal, designed by Karl Goetz who also designed the well-known Lusitania medal. The incident was still remembered 25 years later, when it was