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HMS Baralong was a cargo steamship that was built in England in 1901, served in the Royal Navy as a Q-ship in the First World War, was sold into Japanese civilian service in 1922 and scrapped in 1933. She was renamed HMS Wyandra in 1915, Manica in 1916, Kyokuto Maru in 1922 and Shinsei Maru No. 1 in 1925.
In the Clive Cussler book series Oregon Files, the main base of operations is a Q-ship, a converted lumber carrier. The crew are mercenaries and former US covert and military personnel who carry out missions around the world in support of US policy while earning their living performing mercenary operations.
Captain Godfrey Herbert, DSO and bar, (28 February 1884 – 8 August 1961) was an officer of the Royal Navy who was sometimes referred to as 'Baralong Herbert', in reference to accusations of war crimes subsequent to the Baralong incidents, during World War I.
On 18 October 1914, the British submarine HMS E3 was torpedoed and sunk in the North Sea by U-27. This was the first action in which one submarine sank another. On 19 August 1915 it was itself sunk by the Q-Ship HMS Baralong, in an incident involving the alleged massacre of the submarine's crew.
The Baralong incidents were two incidents during the First World War in August and September 1915, involving the Royal Navy Q-ship HMS Baralong and two German U-boats. Baralong sank U-27 , which had been attacking a nearby merchant ship, the Nicosian .
HMS Riviera (1914–1919) packet ship converted to seaplane tender in 1914; HMS Campania ocean liner converted to seaplane tender in 1915; HMS Anne freighter used as seaplane carrier; HMS Raven II freighter used as seaplane carrier; HMS Ben-my-Chree packet steamer converted to seaplane carrier in 1915; HMS Vindex passenger ferry converted to ...
Print/export Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects Wikimedia Commons; Wikidata item; ... HMS Baralong; SS Ben H. Miller; C. SS Castilian (1890) ...
HMS Malvernian [7] 1937 Abandoned after being bombed, North Atlantic, 19 July 1941 HMS Manistee: 1920 1940 Sailed with Atlantic convoy OB 288. Sunk 24 February 1941, no survivors HMS Marsdale: Participated in locating German supply ships after Bismarck had been sunk HMS Maplin: 1932 Formerly Erin. Converted to Fighter catapult ship 1940. Patia ...