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Description: | Flying boats on lighters in Harwich harbour ready for destroyers to take them in tow. During the First World War, German Zeppelin crews at 20,000 feet and a clear atmosphere could see with binoculars everything on the east coast that moved out of ports. They could remain over these areas for long periods. Flying boats were too slow to intercept them. The lighters were used with Camels first fitted with skids then with ordinary undercarriages and were quite successful and on their first patrol brought down a Zeppelin. | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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