---
title: Improvement Era
description: Monthly periodical of the Mormon church, 1897 onward. This library holds the issues of November 1897 to December 1930.
authors:
  - Young Men's Mutual Improvement Associations
collections:
  - periodicals
tags:
  - magazine
  - improvement-era
periodical: Improvement Era
volume: 21
number: 5
published: 1918-03
publisher: Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations
publisher_place: Salt Lake City
language: en
type: magazine
reference: "Young Men's Mutual Improvement Associations, “Lowering a Big British Hydroaeroplane,” *Improvement Era* 21, no. 5 (March 1918): 396."
source:
  url: https://archive.org/details/improvementera2105unse
  transcription: Transcribed from the Internet Archive scan of each issue (the item for each issue is named in the issue's own source); unnumbered advertising leaves are omitted, printed page numbers are kept as page markers.
  identifier: improvementera2105unse
start_page: 396
end_page: 396
rights:
  status: public-domain
  basis: US publication 1930 or earlier (published 1918-03)
  source: https://archive.org/details/improvementera2105unse
  publication_year: 1918
  note: The Internet Archive item metadata carries a blanket "© Copyright by Intellectual Reserve, Inc." notice. The library owner judged it inapplicable because this issue was published in 1918, before 1931; a scan-level notice does not restore copyright.
---

# Lowering a Big British Hydroaeroplane

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LOWERING A BIG BRITISH HYDROAEROPLANE TO CHASE AWAY

One of the big British hydroaeroplanes being lowered into the water

to chase away enemy eroplanes. It was being transported on board an aero-

plane carrying ship when enemy aeroplanes tried to bombard the vessel.

After being lowered into the water the plane chased away the enemy and

then circled about to make sure that no hostile aircraft or submarine %vere

near. That task finished it settled into the water alongside the ship and

was raised to the deck by pulleys, the same apparatus by which it was low-

ered into the water. The hydroaeroplane is housed on the back part of the

deck of the ship.