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The last Royal Navy Q-ship, 2,456-ton HMS Fidelity, was converted in September, 1940, to carry a torpedo defense net, four 4-inch (100 mm) guns, four torpedo tubes, two OS2U Kingfisher floatplanes, and Motor Torpedo Boat 105. Fidelity sailed with a French crew, and was sunk by U-435 on 30 December 1942 during the battle for Convoy ON-154. [14]
Pages in category "Q-ships of the Royal Navy" The following 17 pages are in this category, out of 17 total. ... Prince Charles (Q-ship) HMS Prize; R. HMS Redbreast (1915)
HMS Prince Charles was a 274 gross register tonnage collier converted to a Q-Ship of the Royal Navy during the First World War. In the afternoon of 24 July 1915 off North Rona in the Outer Hebrides, Prince Charles , commanded by Lieutenant William Penrose Mark-Wardlaw, [3] sank the German submarine SM U-36. The sinking was the first by a Q-Ship ...
HMS Penshurst was a Royal Navy warship that was active during World War I.She was a Special Service Vessel (also known as Q-ships) whose function was to act as a decoy, inviting attack by a U-boat in order to engage and (if possible) destroy it.
HMS Farnborough, also known as (Q-5), was a Q-ship of the British Royal Navy that saw service in the First World War. Farnborough was a heavily armed merchant ship with concealed weaponry that was designed to lure submarines into making surface attacks. Farnborough sank two submarines in her service in the First World War.
HMS Pargust was a Royal Navy warship that was active during World War I. She was a Special Service Vessel (also known as Q-ships ) used by the RN in anti-submarine warfare. Pargust was active in this role during the last two years of the war, and was successful on one occasion, destroying the U-boat UC-29 .
Altogether over 13,000 ships have been in service with the Royal Navy. [ 1 ] Unlike many other naval services, the Royal Navy designates certain types of shore establishment (e.g. barracks , naval air stations and training establishments ) as "ships" and names them accordingly.
List of amphibious warfare ships of the Royal Navy; List of battlecruisers of the Royal Navy; List of pre-dreadnought battleships of the Royal Navy; List of dreadnought battleships of the Royal Navy; List of cruiser classes of the Royal Navy; List of destroyer classes of the Royal Navy; List of patrol vessels of the Royal Navy; List of frigate ...