In 1916, the British Admiralty produced a requirement for a small single seater fighter landplane intended to fly off short platforms on the forecastle of the Royal Navy's Destroyers and other small ships to provide a widely distributed airship interceptor.

Thus modified, it had superior performance and handling to the Grain Kitten, but was similarly plagued by the terrible unreliability of the Gnat.

[5] Official testing praised the view for the pilot and the handling but considered the aircraft too fragile for regular use.

[6] No orders followed, with adapted versions of the Sopwith Camel, operating both from aircraft carriers and from lighters towed behind destroyers being used instead.

[7] In 2014, a replica Kitten – originally started in the 1980s – was completed by enthusiasts at the Yorkshire Air Museum.