First successful naval airstrike launched from a ship
- Who
- HMS Furious
- What
- First
- Where
- Germany (Tondern)
- When
- 19 July 1918
The first airstrike launched from a ship that successfully struck targets on land took place on 19 Jul 1918, when the British ship HMS Furious launched seven Sopwith 2F.1 Camels, in two separate flights, against the Zeppelin facility at Tondern in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany. The first wave of Camels destroyed Zeppelins L.54 and L.60.