Beardmore W.B.III

Two previous attempts at Beardmore biplanes were not ordered, but the Beardmore W.B.III took the basic form of the Sopwith Pup and adapted it with folding wings for shipboard storage and an undercarriage that could be jettisoned or folded. Modest numbers of them were built. The type saw some action on early British aircraft carriers and some were bought by Japan.

Performance was never great and the type did not see much use. At the end of the war, there were sixty-four survivors: twenty-eight at northern Fleet bases and the remainder in storage without engines.