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Originally Posted by Deamon
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Originally Posted by Razman23
Have you ever heard of the 'Q Ships'?
They were also made to 'morph' to differnt profiles by moving, adding, modifing smokestacks, cargo boxes, and pilot houses. They even went as far as to repaint the whole ship differnt schemes to confuse the sub commander to think he is looking at a differnt ship.
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That is curtainly new to me. What are your sources ? |
I read this in a book about WWI and WWII German submarine warfare. I cant recall the name of the book but I found it at my local city library. I think the word 'morph' is a little too harsh to say. What the captains did was have extra smokestacks, cargo boxes, and other ship 'parts' stored in the holds. Afterall they are not using the ships to carry cargo. So they would sail back and forth in a area, then at night, the crew would pull out a smokestack or a cargo box and install them in the dead of night. They would even paint the entire hull a new color to give the impression that it was a ship of a differnt company. These ships were old and not really worthwhile for the shipping companies so they were given to the Royal Navy. The ships were placed in drydock, they would have panels installed into the sides of the hull, guns mounted inside, and even guns mounted inside false cargo boxes.
The Qship crew would actually role play when a sub appeared. They had crew whose only job was to run around on deck, look scared, jump upon the life boats and abandon ship. The whole time, the gun crews would spy upon the sub waiting it to get closer to spring their trap.