When was the first airborne attack against a ship at sea?

Question

i.e. the first attack by planes against a warship (ideally surface warship...) launched from a carrier. The earliest I have is Ark Royal against the Bismark in 1941

Answer 1

Furious, 47

Class: Furious, Courageous
Built by Sir W.G. Armstrong, Whitworth & Co Ltd, Walker Shi




History


1915 June 8th Laid down. Nationality (Great Britain). Type: battle cruiser
Great Britain
1916 August 16th Launched
1917
Furious June 26th Commissioned. Named Furious. Pennant: 47. Type: fleet aircraft carrier





1939
Furious September 3rd The Royal Navy at the start of the war
North Sea
October 5th Hunting groups against corsairs
North Atlantic
October 23rd Rawalpindi's fight
North Sea

1940
Furious April 10th Campaign in Norway
Norway
April 11th It was the first airborne torpedo attack of the war
April 26th Damaged by the Luftwaffe
December 25th Convoy WS-5 A
North Atlantic

1942
Furious August 11th Convoy Pedestal for Malta
Western Mediteranean Sea
November 8th Operation "Torch": Landing in North Africa
Algeria

1944
Furious April 3rd Operation "Tungsten": carrier raid against the Tir
Arctic
May 15th Carrier attacks against the Tirpitz
ca. August 18th Convoys JW 59 and RA 59 A
August 22nd Operation Goodwood I and II
August 24th Operation Goodwood III: carrier raid against the <
September 12th Sank the V-5307, V-5309. Damaged the V-5105, Ostland
North Sea
September 15th Sunk
Great Britain




1948
Furious July Scrapped

Answer 2

even if we went to warfare or not may be the alternative of the authorities on the time, we do not ought to trust that decision. That has been shown. Your remark about "it may attack India" makes no experience in any respect. we can attack New Zealand too, yet we are not likely to. i don't think that India is in forthcoming chance of attack by technique of China. There are a lot larger and larger urgent issues contained in the sub-continent than attack by technique of China. Edit: Sovereignty over 2 separated products of territory were contested between China and India considering that Adam became a boy. surely, the 1962 Sino-Indian warfare became fought in this territory. the most cutting-edge standoff ended on would 5, 2013.

Answer 3

there were many attacks on surface ships by aircraft during WW1, but with such small bombs there was negligible damage.

If you mean by deadly surface attack......IE a ship of war was sunk by aircraft:
Billy Mitchells USAAC attack on the anchored unmanned Ostenfield (sp?) about 1929

ship of war sunk by aircraft during a war ; the Royal Navy's attack on the anchored Italian fleet in harbor at Taranto....don't have the exact date in front of me, but 1940 I do believe.....RN canvas and wood bi plane Swordfish torpedo bombers sank 3 Italian battleships...an attack that the Japanese watched very closely......

while Arc Royals strike on Bismark is indeed probably the first attack at against a underway at war ship, the first time a ship was sunk by carrier launched aircraft at sea is....er, a damn good question........probably Cornwall and Exeter in the Indian Ocean by Nagumos carriers in early 1942

Answer 4

I am sure there would have been much earlier attacks than 1941, surely early Bi-planes would have hand dropped bombs in the first world war?

Answer 5

1917 lol

Answer 6

1917 sorry no more info