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Description: | Photocopy of a short ts history (6pp) of the Special Service Ships (Q-ships) under his command at Granton naval base from 1915 - 1918, giving summary details of the 29 trawlers, coastal steamers and sailing vessels fitted out as anti-submarine decoy ships at the base, and emphasising the considerable care taken over every aspect of their disguise, their employment as conventional trawlers or coasters engaged on useful war work at the same time as serving as Q-ships, their operations in the North Sea and elsewhere and their success in sinking a few German submarines and detering others from attacking Allied merchant shipping; together with a wordprocessed article (14pp) written by his son containing further information about the Granton Q-ships (including the service of the writer Joseph Conrad in one of them) and his father's role in their operations.
Cataloguer RWAS
Catalogue date 2004-04 | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Walker, K R | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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