HMS Manica was a merchant steamship that was built in England in 1901 and was scrapped in Japan in 1931. She was built as a dry cargo ship but spent the latter part of her career as an oil tanker. She is most notable for her service in the First World War. In 1915 she was converted into the Royal Navy's first kite balloon ship.

2018年4月4日 · HMS MANICA – February to December 1916, UK out, German East Africa Campaign. Edited by Rosemary, Old Weather Transcriber, Renfrewshire

HMS Manica was a British cargo steamship that became the first kite balloon ship of the Royal Naval Air Service. She saw active service in the Dardanelles Campaign of 1915 directing the fire of the supporting ships at Anzac Cove.

2008年11月15日 · The Manica with baloon aloft at Gallipoli in 1915 . 27 April 1915 the observers was also spotting for HMS TRIUMPH and HMS QUEEN ELIZABETH the Royal Navy’s newest and most powerful battleship, and the first in the world to mount 381 millimetre (15 inch) guns – during the afternoon QUEEN ELIZABETH blew up an armament store at Kojadere.

HMS Manica was the first kite balloon ship of the Royal Naval Air Service which saw active service in the Dardanelles Campaign of 1915 directing the fire of the supporting ships at Anzac Cove. Ships of the similar type included HMS Canning and HMS Hector.

In February 1916 Sub Lt JE Loveluck re-joined HMS Manica and most of the crew that returned from Gallipoli in September 1915. The ship headed for the Eastern Mediterranean but continued to Zanzibar. For the next 18 months the ship now with sea planes as well as the balloon supported all the naval and army actions on the coast of E Africa.

image: a view of the kite balloon ship HMS Manica, shown port side on, in Kephalos Bay off the island of Imbros. The ship's yellow balloon is partly inflated on the foredeck. To the right the sterns of two ships are visible, with coastline in the background.

John Edward Loveluck was first officer on the cargo ship SS Manica when she returned to London from Australia in March 1915, unloading there and at Manchester. She was immediately taken over by the Admiralty and was converted at Birkenhead to …

2016年3月15日 · The HMS Manica, a kite balloon ship, has been ungoing a refit in Birkenhead following her return from the Dardannelles. Today, she set sail for Gibraltar, with 1 Kite Baloon Section and a small seaplane. The First Sea Lord has ordered the ship to deploy off German East Africa - at the request of General…

image: a heavily annotated aerial diagram of the position of Royal Navy warships HMS Manica, HMS Ark Royal and HMS Talbot off Gallipoli at around 2.45pm on 3 May 1915. The coastline is shown in the very bottom of the composition, with handwritten text filling the top.