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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.
This category is for ships launched in the year 1901. 1896; 1897; ... HMS Baralong; HMS Bedford (1901) USS Biddle (TB-26) ... Spanish seaplane carrier Dédalo; SS ...
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.
Nine Q-ships were commissioned by the Royal Navy in September and October 1939 for work in the North Atlantic: [14] 610-ton HMS Chatsgrove (X85) ex-Royal Navy P-class sloop PC-74 built 1918; 5,072-ton HMS Maunder (X28) ex-King Gruffyd built 1919; 4,443-ton HMS Prunella (X02) ex-Cape Howe built 1930; 5,119-ton HMS Lambridge (X15) ex-Botlea built ...
Baralong: 1901 1901–1915 1916–1922 Requisitioned as a Q-ship in WW1 as HMS Baralong. Renamed HMS Wyandra. Returned 1916 and renamed Manica. Sold and renamed Kyokuto Maru and later Shinsei Maru No.1. Scrapped 1933. Branksome Hall: 1904 1904–1918 Torpedoed and sunk by UB-105 off Libya in 1918. Castilian: 1890 1909–1917 ex Umbilo.
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 Baralong. After the sinking of RMS Lusitania by the German submarine SM U-20 in May 1915, Lieutenant-Commander Godfrey Herbert, commanding officer of the Q-ship HMS Baralong, was visited by two officers of the Admiralty's Secret Service branch at the Royal Navy's base at Spike Island, near Queenstown, Ireland.