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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.
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.
This is an alphabetical list of the names of all ships that have been in service with the Royal Navy, or with predecessor fleets formally in the service of the Kingdom of England or the Commonwealth of England. The list also includes fictional vessels which have prominently featured in literature about 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 classes of the Royal Navy; List of mine countermeasure vessels of the Royal Navy (includes minesweepers and mine hunters) List of monitors of the ...
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.
Royal Navy: armed merchant cruiser: 22,181 1927 Scrapped 1958 Anacapa United States Navy: Q-ship: 7,500 31 August 1942 21 March 1946 Antoine Royal Navy: Special Service Ship: 1,030 paid off March 1941 Asterion United States Navy: Q-ship: 6,610 March 1942 transferred to Coast Guard 16 December 1943 converted to weather ship Atik: Q-ship: 6,610 5 ...
Pages in category "Royal Navy ship names" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 2,414 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
The total displacement of the Royal Navy's commissioned and active ships is approximately 393,000 tonnes. The Royal Navy also includes a number of smaller non-commissioned assets. The naval training vessels Brecon and Hindostan can be found based at the Royal Navy stone frigates HMS Raleigh and the Britannia Royal Naval College, respectively