Type 184
Type	Scout
Manufacturer	Short Brothers
Designed by	Horace Short
Maiden flight	1915
Introduced	1915
Retired	1920s
Primary users	Royal Naval Air Service Royal Flying Corps Hellenic Air Force Estonian Air Force

The Short Type 184 was a British two-seat reconnaissance, bombing and torpedo carrying seaplane designed by Short Brothers. An aerospace manufacturer is a company or individual involved in the various aspects of designing, building, testing, selling, and maintaining aircraft, aircraft parts, missiles, rockets, and/or spacecraft. ... Short Brothers plc is a British aerospace company now based in Belfast. ... The Maiden flight of an aircraft is the first occasion on which an aircraft leaves the ground of its own accord. ... This is a list of aviation-related events from 1915: Events January January 19 - First Zeppelin raid on the UK by the German Navy. ... Personnel of No 1 Squadron RNAS in late 1914 The Royal Naval Air Service (RNAS) was the air arm of the Royal Navy until near the end of World War I, when it merged with the British Armys Royal Flying Corps (RFC) to form the Royal Air Force. ... The Royal Flying Corps (RFC) was the over-land air arm of the British military during most of World War I. Origin and Early History Formed by Royal Warrant on May 13, 1912, the RFC superseded the Air Battalion of the Royal Engineers. ... The Hellenic Air Force or HAF (Greek Πολεμική Αεροπορία) is the air force of Greece. ... A modern torpedo, historically called a locomotive torpedo, is a self-propelled projectile that (after being launched above or below the water surface) operates underwater and is designed to detonate on contact or in proximity to a target. ... A DeHavilland Single Otter floatplane in Harbour Air livery. ... Short Brothers plc is a British aerospace company now based in Belfast. ...

History

An urgent requirement by the British Admiralty for a torpedo-carrying seaplane was met by a design by Horace Short at Short Brothers, Rochester, England. Short Brothers plc is a British aerospace company now based in Belfast. ... Rochester is a small town in Kent, at the lowest bridging point of the River Medway about 30 miles (50 km) from London. ... Motto: (French for God and my right) Anthem: God Save the King/Queen Capital London (de facto) Largest city London Official language(s) English (de facto) Unification    - by Athelstan AD 927  Area    - Total 130,395 km² (1st in UK)   50,346 sq mi  Population    - 2006 est. ...

The first aircraft flew in early 1915 and more than 900 aircraft were built by nine different British aircraft companies.^[1], making it the most successful of Shorts' pre-World War II aircraft. 1915 (MCMXV) was a common year starting on Friday (see link for calendar). ... Combatants Allied powers: United Kingdom Soviet Union United States Republic of China and others Axis powers: Germany Italy Japan and others Commanders Winston Churchill Joseph Stalin Franklin Roosevelt Chiang Kai-shek Adolf Hitler Benito Mussolini Hideki Tōjō Casualties Military dead: 17,000,000 Civilian dead: 33,000,000 Total...

In August 1915 a Short 184 of piloted by Flight Commander Charles H. K. Edmonds from HMS Ben-my-Chree operating in the Aegean became the first aircraft in the world to attack an enemy ship with an air-launched torpedo.^[2] Despite early successes in sinking ships the 184s were mainly used for Bombing and Reconnaissance. A Short 184 was the only aircraft to take part in the Battle of Jutland. HMS Ben-my-Chree was a passenger ferry built in 1908 by Vickers for the England—Isle of Man route and taken over by the Royal Navy as a seaplane carrier during World War I. Her name means Girl of My Heart in Manx. ... Combatants Royal Navy (Grand Fleet) Kaiserliche Marine (High Seas Fleet) Commanders Sir John Jellicoe, Sir David Beatty Reinhard Scheer, Franz von Hipper Strength 28 battleships, 9 battlecruisers, 8 heavy cruisers, 26 light cruisers, 78 destroyers 16 battleships, 5 battlecruisers, 6 pre-dreadnoughts, 11 light cruisers, 61 torpedo-boats Casualties 6...

A landplane version of the S.184 was also sold to the Royal Flying Corps as the Short Bomber. The Royal Flying Corps (RFC) was the over-land air arm of the British military during most of World War I. Origin and Early History Formed by Royal Warrant on May 13, 1912, the RFC superseded the Air Battalion of the Royal Engineers. ... The Short Bomber was a British two-seat long-range reconnaissance, bombing and torpedo carrying aircraft designed by Short Brothers as a land-based development of the very successful Short Type 184 (of which more than 900 were built and many exported). ...

The aircraft served in most theatres of war, e.g. in the Cuxhaven Raid and as far afield as Mesopotamia, and continued in service into the 1920s. Mesopotamia refers to the region now occupied by modern Iraq, eastern Syria, southeastern Turkey, and Southwest Iran. ...

The observer in Flight Commander Charles H. K. Edmonds' S.184 which took part in the Cuxhaven Raid was Lt. Robert Erskine Childers DSC, the author of The Riddle of the Sands.^[3], who was later shot by an Irish Free State firing squad 24 November 1922.^[4] Lieutenant is a military, naval, paramilitary, fire service or police officer rank. ... Robert Erskine Childers Robert Erskine Childers DSO (25 June 1870 - 24 November 1922) was an author and Irish nationalist who was executed by the authorities of the newly independent Irish Free State during the Irish Civil War. ... DSC is an initialism or abbreviation for: DCS1800 — European PCS frequencies in the 1800 MHz range. ... The Riddle of the Sands is a 1903 novel by Erskine Childers. ... November 24 is the 328th day (329th on leap years) of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ...

On 9 May 1916 a Short 184 seaplane, "using a bombsight developed by Bourdillon and Tizard, hit a target with a 500 pound bomb from a height of 4,000 feet."^[5] May 9 is the 129th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (130th in leap years). ... This is a list of aviation-related events from 1916: Events January January 12 - German aces Max Immelmann and Oswald Boelcke, with 8 kills, are the first pilots awarded with Pour le Mérite (the Blue Max) January 29 - the second and last Zeppelin raid on Paris inflicts 54 casualties. ...

Operators

• Canada
• Estonia
• Greece
  • Hellenic Air Force
• United Kingdom
  • Royal Naval Air Service
  • Royal Flying Corps

The Hellenic Air Force or HAF (Greek Πολεμική Αεροπορία) is the air force of Greece. ... Personnel of No 1 Squadron RNAS in late 1914 The Royal Naval Air Service (RNAS) was the air arm of the Royal Navy until near the end of World War I, when it merged with the British Armys Royal Flying Corps (RFC) to form the Royal Air Force. ... The Royal Flying Corps (RFC) was the over-land air arm of the British military during most of World War I. Origin and Early History Formed by Royal Warrant on May 13, 1912, the RFC superseded the Air Battalion of the Royal Engineers. ...

Specifications

General characteristics

• Crew: 2
• Length: 40 ft 7 in (12.38 m)
• Wingspan: 63 ft 6in (19.36 m)
• Height: 13 ft 6 in (4.11 m)
• Wing area: 688 ft² (63.9 m²)
• Empty weight: 3,703 lb (1680 kg)
• Loaded weight: lb (kg)
• Max takeoff weight: 5,363 lb (2,433 kg)
• Powerplant: 1× Sunbeam Maori , 260 hp (194 kW)

Performance

• Maximum speed: 88 mph (142 km/h)
• Service ceiling: 9,000 ft (2,745 m)
• Endurance: 2¾ hrs

Armament

• One Lewis gun in rear cockpit
• 1 14-inch (356 mm) torpedo or up to 520 lb (236 kg) of bombs

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Manufacturers

(from British Aircraft Directory)

1. Short Brothers, Rochester (117)
2. Brush Electrical Engineering Co. Ltd. (150)
3. Robey & Co. Ltd.^[6] (208)
4. J Samuel White & Co. Ltd. (110)
5. Frederick Sage & Co. Ltd. (82)
6. S E Saunders Limited (80)
7. Phoenix Dynamo Manufacturing Company (62)
8. Supermarine Aviation Works Ltd. (30)
9. Mann, Egerton & Co. Ltd. (12)
10. Westland Aircraft Works Ltd. (12)

Short Brothers plc is a British aerospace company now based in Belfast. ... Saunders-Roe Princess G-ALUN History Saunders-Roe Limited was a British aircraft manufacturing company based in East Cowes, Isle of Wight. ...

References

1. ^ British Aircraft Directory Short 184
2. ^ From the Guinness Book of Air Facts and Feats (3rd edition, 1977): "The first air attack using a torpedo dropped by an aeroplane was carried out by Flight Commander Charles H. K. Edmonds, flying a Short 184 seaplane from HMS Ben-My-Chree on 12 August 1915, against a 5,000 ton (5,080 tonne) Turkish supply ship in the Sea of Marmara. Although the enemy ship was hit and sunk, the captain of a British submarine claimed to have fired a torpedo simultaneously and sunk the ship. It was further stated that the British submarine E14 had attacked and immobilised the ship four days earlier.
   However, on 17 August 1915 another Turkish ship was sunk by a torpedo of whose origin there can be no doubt. On this occasion Flight Commander C H Edmonds, flying a Short 184, torpedoed a Turkish steamer a few miles north of the Dardanelles. His formation colleague, Flight Lieutenant G B Dacre, was forced to land on the water owing to engine trouble but, seeing an enemy tug close by, taxied up to it and released his torpedo. The tug blew up and sank. Thereafter Dacre was able to take off and return to the Ben-My-Chree[Mention of this and other WW I actions at www.theaerodrome.com forum archives]
3. ^ Archives of RAF history (not official RAF site). M B Barrass.
4. ^ The Riddle of the Sands. Eldritch Press (public domain publisher).
5. ^ Milestones of Flight website: British Military Aviation in 1916 - Part 1. RAF Museum.
6. ^ [The Robey Trust]

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