Blackburn Skua Mk.II
No. 759 Squadron, Fleet Air Arm
Hatston, Orkney Islands, January 1940
(IXO Models DDIJ00021)
- Engine: One 905 h.p. Bristol Perseus XII radial
- Span: 46 ft 2 in
- Length: 35 ft 7 in
- Height: 14 ft 2 in
- Weight: 5,490 lb empty / 8,228 lb loaded
- Crew: Two
- Max Speed: 225 mph at 6,500 ft
- Service Ceiling: 20,200 ft
- Normal Range: 800 miles
- Armament: Four forward-firing .303in Browning MG in wings and one .303in Lewis MG in rear cockpit; one 500 lb bomb, or one 250 lb bomb and four 40 lb bombs
- Notes: Fifteen Skuas of Nos. 800 and 803 Squadrons, led by Capt. R. T. Partridge, R.M., and Lt. W. P. Lucy, R.N., operating from the Orkneys near to the limit of their endurance, attacked the German cruise Königsberg at Begen, Norway on 10 Apr 1940. They obtained three hits and sank the ship; it was the first occasion on which a major warship was sunk by air attack.
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