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Sopwith Admiralty Type C
The Sopwith Admiralty Type C was an early British seaplane designed and built by Sopwith Aviation to drop torpedos. A single engined tractor biplane seaplane, three were delivered to the Royal Navy in November 1914 but proved unable to lift a torpedo.〔
==Design and development==
The Admiralty had ordered a special torpedo carrying biplane (the Sopwith Special torpedo seaplane Type C, serial number ''170'') in February 1914 and followed it with an order in July 1914 for three similar Type C seaplanes (serial numbers 157, 158 and 159).〔 The specification called for folding wings, bomb gear, a gun and radio.〔 Work started at the Sopwith factory at Kingston-upon-Thames on 5 April 1914 and the three Type Cs, powered by a 200 hp Salmson (Canton-Uneé) piston engine, were completed by October.〔 They went to RNAS Calshot for evaluation in November 1914.〔 The Special, tested that July, had failed to lift a torpedo and the new Type Cs were little better, failing to take off under load:〔 157 could not get airborne with a 14" Whitehead torpedo and the other two had similar poor performance.〔 158 was accepted by the service on 4 February 1915 but it sank following a forced landing a few days later on the 8 February.〔 The two survivors, 157 and 159, were withdrawn from service at the end of 1915.〔
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