Editing Sopwith Pup (section)

===Shipboard use===
[[File:100 years of the RAF MOD 45163717.jpg|thumb|Sqn Cdr E. H. Dunning attempting a landing on HMS ''Furious'' in a Sopwith Pup (August 1917)]]
Sopwith Pups were also used in many pioneering carrier experiments. On 2 August 1917, a Pup flown by Sqn Cdr [[Edwin Harris Dunning]] became the first aircraft to land aboard a moving ship, {{HMS|Furious|47|6}}. Dunning was killed on his third landing when the Pup fell over the side of the ship.<ref name="Bruce Flight p11">Bruce 1954, p. 11.</ref> The Pup began operations on the carriers in early 1917; the first aircraft were fitted with skid undercarriages in place of the standard landing gear. Landings utilised a system of deck wires to "trap" the aircraft. Later versions reverted to the normal undercarriage. Pups were used as ship-based fighters on three carriers: {{HMS|Campania|1914|6}}, ''Furious'' and {{HMS|Manxman|1903|2}}. Some other Pups were deployed to cruisers and battleships where they were launched from platforms attached to gun turrets. A Pup flown from a platform on the cruiser {{HMS|Yarmouth|1911|6}} shot down the German [[Zeppelin]] ''L 23'' off the [[Denmark|Danish]] coast on 21 August 1917.<ref name="Bruce Flight p10"/>

The U.S. Navy also employed the Sopwith Pup with Australian pilot [[Edgar Percival]] testing the use of carrier-borne fighters. In 1926, Percival flew a Pup from a platform on turret "B" on the battleship {{USS|Idaho|BB-42|6}} at [[Guantánamo Bay]], Cuba prior to the ship undergoing a major refit that added catapults on the stern.