Short Type 184

The Short Admiralty Type 184, often called the Short 225 after the power rating of its first engine, was a British two-seat reconnaissance, bombing and torpedo-carrying folding-wing seaplane designed by Horace Short of Short Brothers and first flown in 1915. It was specified in September 1914 around the 225 hp Sunbeam Mohawk engine, after trials with the less powerful Type 166, and was an equal-span three-bay tractor biplane with a wire-braced wooden box-girder fuselage. A Type 184 was the first aircraft to sink a ship with a torpedo, and another was the only British aircraft to take part in the Battle of Jutland. It stayed in service until after the armistice in 1918.