Hansa Brandenburg W.12 - Attack on the C.17 by Ivan Berryman. (RM) AIT90 its upper surfaces were painted

its upper surfaces were painted factory finish streaked green and

Original chromolithograph published 1873

Karl von Muller

7 Squadron

Shown here ridden by Ruby Walsh

Hansa Brandenburg W.12 - Attack on the C.17 by Ivan Berryman. (RM) AIT90 its upper surfaces were paintedDHM1813RM. 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