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The Alfred Noyes poem "Kilmeny" is about a Q-ship, a British trawler equipped with two deck guns, that destroys a German submarine during World War I. In Ernest Hemingway's novel Islands in the Stream, the main character Thomas Hudson commands a Q-ship for the US Navy around Cuba as he hunts the survivors of a sunken German U-boat.
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 ...
Pages in category "Q-ships of the Royal Navy" The following 17 pages are in this category, out of 17 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A. SS Arvonian; B.
In March 1915 she arrived at Barry Docks for conversion into a "Special Service Vessel" or Q-ship. She was armed with three 12-pounder naval guns in concealed mountings, equipped with devices to simulate damage, and otherwise modified for naval service. [8] In April 1915 work was completed, and she was commissioned into the Royal Navy as HMS ...
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. Penshurst fought a number of engagements against German U-boats during her service, and was successful on two occasions, destroying UB-19 in November 1916, and UB-37 in ...
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.
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 ...
Q-ships of the Royal Navy (17 P) U. Q-ships of the United States Navy (8 P) Pages in category "Q-ships" This category contains only the following page.