Q-ship
Sign in to saveAlso known as decoy ship, mystery ships, special service ships, decoy vessels, Q-boats
thumb|upright=1.5|British First World War Q-ship HMS Tamarisk
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Encyclopedic overview
20 sectionsContents
- Etymology
- Early uses of the concept
- First World War
- Royal Navy
- Imperial German Navy
- Second World War
- Germany
- Japan
- United Kingdom
- United States
- Proposed use against modern pirates
- Survivors
- Q-ships in fiction
- In science fiction
- See also
- References
- Citations
- Sources
- Further reading
- External links
thumb|upright=1.5|British First World War Q-ship HMS Tamarisk
Q-ships, also known as Q-boats, decoy vessels, special service ships, or mystery ships, were heavily armed merchant ships with concealed weaponry, designed to lure submarines into making surface attacks. This gave Q-ships the chance to open fire and sink them.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Q-ship” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.