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79 relations: Admiralty (United Kingdom), Alfred Noyes, Analog Science Fiction and Fact, Anchusa-class sloop, Armed merchantman, Atlantic U-boat campaign of World War I, Baralong incidents, Brig, CAM ship, Clive Cussler, Cobh, Commerce raiding, Consulate, Convoy ON 154, Cuernavaca, David Weber, Day of the Dead, Depth charge, East Indiaman, Edward L. Beach Jr., Ernest Hemingway, Ernest J. King, Eyemouth, False flag, French Revolutionary Wars, Funnel (ship), Gordon Campbell (Royal Navy officer), Great Yarmouth, Harold Auten, Home port, Honor Among Enemies, Honorverse, Hull classification symbol, Imperial German Navy, Imperial Japanese Navy, Ireland, Islands in the Stream (novel), Jersey, Kriegsmarine, Lugger, Malcolm Lowry, Mary B Mitchell (Q-ship), Merchant aircraft carrier, Merchant raider, Minesweeper, Motor torpedo boat, Naval boarding, Naval mine, Net laying ship, On Basilisk Station, ... Expand index (29 more) »
- Anti-submarine weapons
- Military use of mimicry
- Q-ships
Admiralty (United Kingdom)
The Admiralty was a department of the Government of the United Kingdom responsible for the command of the Royal Navy until 1964, historically under its titular head, the Lord High Admiral – one of the Great Officers of State.
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Alfred Noyes
Alfred Noyes CBE (16 September 188025 June 1958) was an English poet, short-story writer and playwright.
Analog Science Fiction and Fact
Analog Science Fiction and Fact is an American science fiction magazine published under various titles since 1930.
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Anchusa-class sloop
The twenty-eight Anchusa-class sloops were built under the Emergency War Programme for the Royal Navy in World War I as the final part of the larger "Flower class", which were also referred to as the "Cabbage class", or "Herbaceous Borders".
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Armed merchantman
An armed merchantman is a merchant ship equipped with guns, usually for defensive purposes, either by design or after the fact. Q-ship and armed merchantman are ship types.
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Atlantic U-boat campaign of World War I
The Atlantic U-boat campaign of World War I (sometimes called the "First Battle of the Atlantic", in reference to the World War II campaign of that name) was the prolonged naval conflict between German submarines and the Allied navies in Atlantic waters—the seas around the British Isles, the North Sea and the coast of France.
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Baralong incidents
The Baralong incidents were two incidents during the First World War in August and September 1915, involving the Royal Navy Q-ship and two German U-boats.
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Brig
A brig is a type of sailing vessel defined by its rig: two masts which are both square-rigged.
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CAM ship
CAM ships were World War II–era British merchant ships used in convoys as an emergency stop-gap until sufficient escort carriers became available.
Clive Cussler
Clive Eric Cussler (July 15, 1931 – February 24, 2020) was an American adventure novelist and underwater explorer.
Cobh
Cobh, known from 1849 until 1920 as Queenstown, is a seaport town on the south coast of County Cork, Ireland.
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Commerce raiding
Commerce raiding is a form of naval warfare used to destroy or disrupt logistics of the enemy on the open sea by attacking its merchant shipping, rather than engaging its combatants or enforcing a blockade against them.
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Consulate
A consulate is the office of a consul.
Convoy ON 154
Convoy ON 154 - also ON(S) 154 or ONS 154 ON 154 was a slow convoy of the ON series.
Cuernavaca
Cuernavaca (Cuauhnāhuac, "near the woods", Otomi) is the capital and largest city of the state of Morelos in Mexico.
David Weber
David Mark Weber (born October 24, 1952) is an American science fiction and fantasy author. He has written several science-fiction and fantasy books series, the best known of which is the Honor Harrington science-fiction series. His first novel, which he worked on with Steve White, sold in 1989 to Baen Books.
Day of the Dead
The Day of the Dead (el Día de Muertos or el Día de los Muertos) is a holiday traditionally celebrated on November 1 and 2, though other days, such as October 31 or November 6, may be included depending on the locality.
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Depth charge
A depth charge is an anti-submarine warfare (ASW) weapon designed to destroy submarines by detonating in the water near the target and subjecting it to a destructive hydraulic shock. Q-ship and depth charge are anti-submarine weapons.
East Indiaman
East Indiaman was a general name for any sailing ship operating under charter or licence to any of the East India trading companies of the major European trading powers of the 17th through the 19th centuries. Q-ship and East Indiaman are ship types.
Edward L. Beach Jr.
Edward Latimer Beach Jr. (April 20, 1918 – December 1, 2002) was a United States Navy submarine officer and author.
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Ernest Hemingway
Ernest Miller Hemingway (July 21, 1899 – July 2, 1961) was an American novelist, short-story writer and journalist.
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Ernest J. King
Ernest Joseph King (23 November 1878 – 25 June 1956) was a fleet admiral in the United States Navy who served as Commander in Chief, United States Fleet (COMINCH) and Chief of Naval Operations (CNO) during World War II.
Eyemouth
Eyemouth is a small town and civil parish in Berwickshire, in the Scottish Borders area of Scotland.
False flag
A false flag operation is an act committed with the intent of disguising the actual source of responsibility and pinning blame on another party.
French Revolutionary Wars
The French Revolutionary Wars (Guerres de la Révolution française) were a series of sweeping military conflicts resulting from the French Revolution that lasted from 1792 until 1802.
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Funnel (ship)
A funnel is the smokestack or chimney on a ship used to expel boiler steam and smoke or engine exhaust.
Gordon Campbell (Royal Navy officer)
Vice admiral Gordon Campbell, (6 January 1886 – 3 October 1953) was a British naval officer, writer, politician and a recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.
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Great Yarmouth
Great Yarmouth, often called Yarmouth, is a seaside town which gives its name to the wider Borough of Great Yarmouth in Norfolk, England; it straddles the River Yare and is located east of Norwich.
Harold Auten
Commander Harold Auten (22 August 1891 – 3 October 1964) was a Royal Naval Reserve (RNR) officer who was awarded the Victoria Cross, the highest award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.
Home port
A vessel's home port is the port at which it is based, which may not be the same as its port of registry shown on its registration documents and lettered on the stern of the ship's hull.
Honor Among Enemies
Honor Among Enemies is a 1996 science fiction novel by American writer David Weber.
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Honorverse
The Honorverse is a military science fiction book series, its two subseries, two prequel series, and anthologies created by David Weber and published by Baen Books.
Hull classification symbol
The United States Navy, United States Coast Guard, and United States National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) use a hull classification symbol (sometimes called hull code or hull number) to identify their ships by type and by individual ship within a type.
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Imperial German Navy
The Imperial German Navy or the Kaiserliche Marine (Imperial Navy) was the navy of the German Empire, which existed between 1871 and 1919.
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Imperial Japanese Navy
The Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN; Kyūjitai: 大日本帝國海軍 Shinjitai: 大日本帝国海軍 'Navy of the Greater Japanese Empire', or 日本海軍 Nippon Kaigun, 'Japanese Navy') was the navy of the Empire of Japan from 1868 to 1945, when it was dissolved following Japan's surrender in World War II.
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Ireland
Ireland (Éire; Ulster-Scots: Airlann) is an island in the North Atlantic Ocean, in north-western Europe.
Islands in the Stream (novel)
Islands in the Stream (1970) is the first of the posthumously published novels of Ernest Hemingway.
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Jersey
Jersey (label), officially known as the Bailiwick of Jersey, is an island country and self-governing British Crown Dependency near the coast of north-west France.
Kriegsmarine
The Kriegsmarine was the navy of Nazi Germany from 1935 to 1945.
Lugger
A lugger is a sailing vessel defined by its rig, using the lug sail on all of its one or more masts.
Malcolm Lowry
Clarence Malcolm Lowry (28 July 1909 – 26 June 1957) was an English poet and novelist who is best known for his 1947 novel Under the Volcano, which was voted No. 11 in the Modern Library 100 Best Novels list.
Mary B Mitchell (Q-ship)
Mary B Mitchell was a British schooner completed in 1892 that served as a Q-ship during the First World War.
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Merchant aircraft carrier
A merchant aircraft carrier (also known as a MAC ship, the Admiralty's official 'short name') was a limited-purpose aircraft carrier operated under British and Dutch civilian registry during World War II. Q-ship and merchant aircraft carrier are ship types.
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Merchant raider
Merchant raiders are armed commerce raiding ships that disguise themselves as non-combatant merchant vessels. Q-ship and merchant raider are ship types.
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Minesweeper
A minesweeper is a small warship designed to remove or detonate naval mines. Q-ship and minesweeper are ship types.
Motor torpedo boat
A motor torpedo boat is a fast torpedo boat, especially of the mid 20th century.
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Naval boarding
Naval boarding action is an offensive tactic used in naval warfare to come up against (or alongside) an enemy watercraft and attack by inserting combatants aboard that vessel.
Naval mine
A naval mine is a self-contained explosive device placed in water to damage or destroy surface ships or submarines. Q-ship and naval mine are anti-submarine weapons.
Net laying ship
Pearl Harbor in the 1940s A net laying ship, also known as a net layer, net tender, gate ship or boom defence vessel was a type of naval auxiliary ship.
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On Basilisk Station
On Basilisk Station is a science fiction novel by American writer David Weber, first published in 1993.
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Operation Pacific
Operation Pacific is a 1951 black-and-white World War II submarine war drama from Warner Bros. Pictures, produced by Louis Edelman, and written as well as directed by George Waggner.
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Oregon Files
The Oregon Files is a series of novels written by author Clive Cussler and several co-authors.
P-class sloop
The P class, nominally described as "patrol boats", was in effect a class of British coastal sloops.
Piracy off the coast of Somalia
Piracy off the coast of Somalia occurs in the Gulf of Aden, Guardafui Channel, and Somali Sea, in Somali territorial waters and other surrounding places and has a long troubled history with different perspectives from different communities.
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Popular Science
Popular Science (also known as PopSci) is a U.S. popular science website, covering science and technology topics geared toward general readers.
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River Thames
The River Thames, known alternatively in parts as the River Isis, is a river that flows through southern England including London.
Royal Navy
The Royal Navy (RN) is the naval warfare force of the United Kingdom, British Overseas Territories and Crown Dependencies, and a component of His Majesty's Naval Service.
Run Silent, Run Deep
Run Silent, Run Deep is a novel by Commander (later Captain) Edward L. Beach Jr. published in 1955 by Henry Holt & Co. The story describes World War II submarine warfare in the Pacific Ocean, and deals with themes of vengeance, endurance, courage, loyalty and honor, and how these can be tested during wartime.
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Ruse de guerre
The French ruse de guerre, sometimes literally translated as ruse of war, is a non-uniform term; generally what is understood by "ruse of war" can be separated into two groups.
Scuttling
A ship is scuttled when its crew deliberately sinks it, typically by opening holes in its hull.
Second Happy Time
The Second Happy Time (officially Operation Paukenschlag ("Operation Drumbeat"), and also known among German submarine commanders as the "American Shooting Season") was a phase in the Battle of the Atlantic during which Axis submarines attacked merchant shipping and Allied naval vessels along the east coast of North America.
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Sodegaura
Sodegaura park is a city located in Chiba Prefecture, Japan.
SS Lambridge
SS Lambridge was a UK cargo ship that was built in 1917, gave 28 years of service and was scuttled in 1945.
Submarine
A submarine (or sub) is a watercraft capable of independent operation underwater. Q-ship and submarine are ship types.
Submarine chaser
A submarine chaser or subchaser is a small naval vessel that is specifically intended for anti-submarine warfare.
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Tokyo Bay
is a bay located in the southern Kantō region of Japan spanning the coasts of Tokyo, Kanagawa Prefecture, and Chiba Prefecture.
Tonnage war
A tonnage war is a military strategy aimed at merchant shipping.
U-boat
U-boats were naval submarines operated by Germany, particularly in the First and Second World Wars.
Under the Volcano
Under the Volcano is a novel by English writer Malcolm Lowry (1909–1957) published in 1947.
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United Kingdom
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom (UK) or Britain, is a country in Northwestern Europe, off the coast of the continental mainland.
United States Fleet
The United States Fleet was an organization in the United States Navy from 1922 until after World War II.
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USS Growler (SS-215)
USS Growler (SS-215), a ''Gato''-class submarine, was the third ship of the United States Navy named for the growler.
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Victoria Cross
The Victoria Cross (VC) is the highest and most prestigious decoration of the British decorations system.
Vought OS2U Kingfisher
The Vought OS2U Kingfisher is an American catapult-launched observation floatplane.
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War of Honor
War of Honor is a science fiction novel by American writer David Weber, the tenth book in the Honor Harrington series.
White Ensign
The White Ensign, at one time called the St George's Ensign because of the simultaneous existence of a crossless version of the flag, is an ensign worn on British Royal Navy ships and shore establishments.
William Edward Sanders
William Edward Sanders (7 February 1883 – 14 August 1917) was a First World War New Zealand recipient of the Victoria Cross (VC), the highest award for gallantry "in the face of the enemy" that could be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces at the time.
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World War I
World War I (alternatively the First World War or the Great War) (28 July 1914 – 11 November 1918) was a global conflict between two coalitions: the Allies (or Entente) and the Central Powers.
World War II
World War II or the Second World War (1 September 1939 – 2 September 1945) was a global conflict between two alliances: the Allies and the Axis powers.
See also
Anti-submarine weapons
- A244-S
- Anti-submarine missile
- Anti-submarine net
- Anti-submarine unguided projectile
- Anti-submarine weapon
- Bofors 375mm anti submarine rockets
- Depth charge
- Depth charges
- Ginocchio towed torpedo
- Naval mine
- Naval mines
- Nuclear depth bomb
- Q-ship
- RUM-139 VL-ASROC
- RUR-5 ASROC
- Submerged signal ejector
- Torpedo
- Torpedoes
- UUM-44 SUBROC
Military use of mimicry
Q-ships
- Q-ship
References
Also known as Decoy vessels, Q Boat, Q Ship, Q ships, Q-boat, Q-ships, Special service ships.