On 16 October 1939, the Luftwaffe made a daylight air raid up the Forth to bomb British warships (HMS Edinburgh, HMS Mohawk and HMS Southampton) at Rosyth. This was the first daylight air raid in the United Kingdom.
The event of a daylight air raid by the German Air Force against British warships at Rosyth on October 16, 1939, marked the beginning of such attacks in the United Kingdom.