Blackburn Rovers F.C. | Blackburn | Ripon | Tony Blackburn | Ripon Cathedral | Ripon College | Paul Blackburn | Stephen of Ripon | Simon Blackburn | Robert Blackburn (artist) | Robert Blackburn | Ripon College Cuddesdon | Olly Blackburn | Blackburn Cathedral | Susan Smith Blackburn Prize | Marsha Blackburn | John Morley, 1st Viscount Morley of Blackburn | George Robinson, 1st Marquess of Ripon | Robin Blackburn | George Blackburn (footballer born 1899) | George Blackburn | Estelle Blackburn | Derek Blackburn | Corporation Park, Blackburn | Clarice Blackburn | Blackburn railway station, Melbourne | Blackburn Buccaneer | Blackburn Botha | Blackburn Athletic F.C. | Benjamin B. Blackburn |
In 1930, the British Air Ministry issued Specification M.1/30 for a carrier-based torpedo bomber to replace the Ripon, to be powered by the Rolls-Royce Buzzard or Armstrong Siddeley Leopard engines.
The equipment consisted of some 200-240 aircraft, including Curtiss Hawk 75As, Fokker D.XXIs, Morane-Saulnier MS.406s, Gloster Gladiator IIs, Curtiss P-40M, LaGG-3, Fokker C.Xs, Westland Lysanders, VL Viima IIs, VL Myrsky IIs, Blackburn Ripon IIFs, and Bristol Blenheim Mk.Is.