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Stationary Ships

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Originally Posted by d@rk51d3

I thought they were just storm damaged ships, myself. Quite often found 1 or 2 together riding out a storm.

I've seen those two ships in the same place on many different patrols - they were always British, but they never caused me any problems when I sank them. I guess if they actually were originally supposed to be part of a Q-Ship feature, it really was incomplete. Also, sometimes they would appear in calm weather, and I would guess they were generic campaign entries because different type 102 units (including modded freighters) would show up at different times.

This video is from such a meeting:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=XRt7libJxv8

Thats more you repeatedly pounding an armed merchantman:rotfl:

not really a Q ship, the guns were in plain view.

great video btw, I love the LOTR soundtrack.

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Originally Posted by Sailor Steve

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Originally Posted by Respenus

What is a Q ship?

Early in WWI (and again in WWII) it was a fairly common practice to surface, "put a shot across the bow" and then examine a ship's papers. If it was British, the U-boat skipper would let them abandon ship and then sink it with scuttling charges. The Brits started putting disguised guns on merchants, making life difficult for the U-boat. Of course they cried foul when the subs started torpedoing them without warning, but what do you do?

Indeed. I remember reading many books which accuse the u-boats of being savages and of course the official history of the West has it that they began the true u-boat war unprovoked but it was really the Brits that made it impossible for the u-boats to follow the terms of the treaty which limited their behavior to being the same as surface ships.

They were all bastards in that war, allies or axis.