Hansa Brandenburg W.12 - Attack on the C.17 by Ivan Berryman. (AP) REG537 Sir John Tover

Sir John Tover

Size 30 inches x 23 inches (76cm x 60cm)

Of the nineteen aircraft that took part in the mission

In a 40 knot gale

8th Royal Scots

Hansa Brandenburg W.12 - Attack on the C.17 by Ivan Berryman. (AP) REG537 Sir John ToverDHM1813AP. 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