Hansa Brandenburg W.12 - Attack on the C.17 by Ivan Berryman. (B) SIG1419 Boelckes final tally was 40

Boelckes final tally was 40 victories

Hugely outnumbered

The painting catches the moment as the Halifaxes

a service ceiling of 51

Hansa Brandenburg W.12 - Attack on the C.17 by Ivan Berryman. (B) SIG1419 Boelckes final tally was 40DHM1813B. Hansa Brandenburg W. 12 Attack on the C. 17 by Ivan Berryman. On the morning of 21st April 1917, coastal airship No C. 17 was on a routine patrol captained by Sub Lieutenant E G O Jackson, when sometime around 8. 00am, she was attacked by German seaplanes and shot down. Such was their vulnerability that these huge battlebags were an easy target for marauding enemy scouts, their single Lewis guns achieving little by way of defence. The Hansa