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Yarmouth RNAS station
14th May 1917 Zeppelin shot down
23rd May 1917 Zeppelin Raids on Britain 23/24th May 1917.
This experience was repeated on 23,24 May, when six Zeppelins set out to bomb London but were frustrated by a combination of high winds and thick cloud. Most of the Zeppelins were far from their intended routes and eventually abandoned their missions. A few bombs were dropped on Suffolk, killing one person and causing £599 damage.
About an hour after the L.40 had re-crossed the coast on her homeward journey a flying-boat from Yarmouth, piloted by Flight Lieutenant C. J. Galpin, set out for Terschelhng in the hope that one or more of the returning Zeppelins might be encountered. The tracks of the Zeppelin and of the flying-boat show that they were flying on converging courses, but clouds and rain squalls curtained the scene and it was not until about 5.30 a.m., when the flying-boat had already turned back, that the L.40 suddenly appeared out of a cloud a mile ahead. Kapitanleutnant Sommerfeldt immediastely dropped his remaining bombs and climbed rapdily towards the clouds above. Flight Lieutenant Galpin had approached within 300 yards when the nose of the Zeppelin met the clouds. There was just time to get half a drum of incendiary ammunition in her direction, without effect, before she was lost to view. The flying-boat flew on towards Yarmouth without further incident until it was forced down through petrol shortage near Cromer Knoll, whence it was taken in tow by a trawler.
John Doran
5th September 1917 Failed Attack on Zeppelin
13th April 1918 Air Raid
30th May 1918 Flying Boat lost
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