Royal Naval Air Service
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The Royal Naval Air Service was the air arm of the Royal Navy, under the direction of the Admiralty's Air Department, and existed formally from 1 July 1914 to 1 April 1918, when it was merged with the
Personnel of No 1 Squadron RNAS in late 1914
Commander C. Samson of the RNAS takes off from HMS Hibernia in his modified Shorts S.38 “hydro-aeroplane” to be the first pilot to take off from a ship underway at sea - 9 May 1912.
Sopwith Triplanes from No. 1 (Naval) Squadron, in Bailleul, France. The aircraft nearest the camera (N5454) was primarily flown by ace Richard Minifie.
RNAS officer dropping a bomb from a SSZ class airship during the First World War.
Tondern raid
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The Tondern raid or Operation F.7, was a British bombing raid by the Royal Navy and Royal Air Force against the Imperial German Navy airship base at Tønder, Denmark, then part of Germany. The airships
The seven Sopwith Camels on the flight deck of HMS Furious en route to the Tondern raid
HMS Furious with its forward flying-off deck and aft landing deck
A Sopwith Camel photographed in 2018
Wreckage of Zeppelins LZ 99 (L 54) and LZ 108 (L 60) in their hangars