In the First World War the Q-ships became an art form. They carried extra crew whose sole job was to make a good show of abandoning ship. They would take to the lifeboats and everything. Then, when the unsuspecting u-boat would close in to board and lay scuttling charges...
Of course the Brits cried foul when the Germans started torpedoing them from underwater, but what's a poor u-boatman to do?
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