Hansa Brandenburg W.12 - Attack on the C.17 by Ivan Berryman. [Original Painting]

Aircraft Depicted: Hansa Brandenburg W.12 [other products featuring this aircraft]

                               Airship [other products featuring this aircraft]

Artist: Ivan Berryman [browse all 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 Brandenburg W.12, on the other hand, was a nimble and useful aircraft that the Germans put to good use in the coastal defence role.

Oil on canvas

Size 30 inches x 20 inches (76cm x 51cm)