Hansa Brandenburg W.12 - Attack on the C.17 by Ivan Berryman. SIG474 HMS Belfast During the Battle

HMS Belfast During the Battle of North Cape by Randall Wilson

troop carrier and glider-tug

In a fraught combat

Long Island

Hansa Brandenburg W.12 - Attack on the C.17 by Ivan Berryman. SIG474 HMS Belfast During the BattleDHM1813. Hansa Brandenburg W. 12 Attack on the C. 17 by Ivan Berryman. On the morning of 21st April 1917, coastal airship No C. 17 was on a routine patrol captained by Sub Lieutenant E G O Jackson, when sometime around 8. 00am, she was attacked by German seaplanes and shot down. Such was their vulnerability that these huge battlebags were an easy target for marauding enemy scouts, their single Lewis guns achieving little by way of defence. The Hansa