Editing Sopwith Tabloid (section)

==Operational history==
[[File:Sopwith Tabloid Biplane Thomas Brothers Aeroplane Co., Ithaca, New York, 1915 (28943756843).jpg|right|thumb|Single seat Sopwith Tabloid at Ithaca, New York, 1915]]

Single-seat variants of the Tabloid went into production in 1914 and 36 eventually entered service with the [[Royal Flying Corps]] and [[Royal Naval Air Service]] (RNAS).<ref name="Donald">Donald, 1997. p 849.</ref> Deployed to [[France]] at the outbreak of the [[World War I|First World War]], Tabloids were used as fast [[Scout (aircraft)|scouts]].

Some naval aircraft were armed with a [[Lewis gun]] on the top wing, firing over the [[Propeller (aircraft)|propeller]] arc. One other aircraft used a Lewis gun firing through the propeller arc with deflector wedges mounted on the propeller blades, but the Tabloid was also used as a [[bomber]], when on 22 September 1914 Tabloids mounted the first raid by British aircraft on German soil; and in their most famous mission two RNAS Tabloids flying from [[Antwerp]] on 8 October 1914 attacked the German [[Zeppelin]] sheds at [[Cologne]] and [[Düsseldorf]]. The Cologne target was not located, the railway station being bombed instead, but the Zeppelin shed at Düsseldorf was struck by two {{cvt|20|lb}} bombs dropped from {{cvt|600|ft}} and Zeppelin [[List of Zeppelins#LZ 25|''Z IX'']] destroyed.<ref name="Bruce PtI p736">Bruce ''Flight'' 8 November 1957, p.&nbsp;736.</ref>

During 1915 attempts were made to use Schneiders to intercept Zeppelins over the [[North Sea]], launching them from [[seaplane carrier]]s including {{HMS|Ben-my-Chree}} and {{HMS|Engadine|1911|2}}, but these efforts were largely unsuccessful due to heavy seas either damaging the floats or making takeoff impossible entirely.

On 6 August 1915 a Schneider took off from the aircraft carrier {{HMS|Campania|1914|6}} using a jettisonable dolly.<ref>Lamberton, 1960. p 58.</ref>

A single Sopwith Schneider fighter seaplane was acquired by Captain Shiro Yamauchi, during an inspection tour of England, during 1915. While in [[Imperial Japanese Navy]] service it was designated '''Yokosuka Navy Ha-go Small Seaplane'''.<ref name="Mikesh">Mikesh, Robert and Shorzoe Abe. ''Japanese Aircraft 1910–1941''. London: Putnam, 1990. {{ISBN|0-85177-840-2}}</ref>