The first prototype of the Short 184 - the designation was taken from its serial, although it was also called Short 225 after the power rating of its Sunbeam engine. The type first flew early in 1915, and 184 and 185 were embarked on a ship which sailed for the Aegean Sea on 21 March. One of these was the first aircraft to sink a ship with a torpedo, but the weapon was launched while taxiing! Photo from: Flight

On display at the first open day at the IWM Duxford facility. 1915-built . Damaged by bombing when at the IWM South Lambeth, London in January 1941. Loaned to the Fleet Air Arm Museum, Yeovilton in January 1976. Current in 2023.

8076 was used at Grain, as Port Victoria was known, for testing. Seen here with four 100-pound bombs. Photo from: Library and Archives Canada

This was the only British aircraft to take part in the Battle of Jutland. Flown by Flt Lt Frederick Rutland with Assistant Paymaster G. S. Trewin as observer, the aircraft was launched from HMS Engadine and spotted four cruisers of the German fleet. The aircraft was presented to the Imperial War Museum in 1917, where it was damaged in a German air raid during the Blitz. Sole surviving original airframe.

1915-built by Westland for the Royal Naval Air Service under contract. This surviving forward fuselage of the biplane was damaged by bombing when at the IWM South Lambeth, London on 31st January 1941. This is the sole extant original Type 184.