World War I was raging off the British Isles when the German ... In place of the red merchant marine flag, the Q-ship hoisted the white ensign of the Royal Navy, prompting the submarine to try ...

British battlecruiser HOOD ... However, she was an old ship, due for modernisation. The Navy knew that, like her predecessors, she would be vulnerable to plunging shell fire.

Meanwhile, numerous old vessels have been expended ... that occurred in 1967 when a British submarine was ordered to remove a rather unexpected threat to ships out in the Atlantic Ocean using ...

These navy ships sailed independently or in pairs, hunting British commerce ships and transports. Two years after the end of the war, the money-poor Congress sold off the last ship of the ...