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Q-Sailing-Ship Mitchell

Frontispiece
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An Early Q-Ship (Antwerp)

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Q-Ship Antwerp

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Commander S. C. Douglas, R.N.

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Commander G. Herbert, D.S.O., R.N.

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Q-Ship Antwerp

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Gun’s Crew of Q-Ship Antwerp

12

Q-Ship Redbreast

22

Q-Ship Baralong

22

Q-Ship Baralong (Two Illustrations)

28

Officers of Q-Ship Farnborough

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Captain Gordon Campbell and Lieutenant C. G. Bonner

42

Q-Sailing-Ship Mitchell

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Q-Ship Penshurst

114

Q-Ship Penshurst (Two Illustrations)

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Q-Ship Penshurst (Two Illustrations)

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Captain and Officers of Q-Ship Penshurst

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Men of Q-Ship Penshurst

124

Q-Ship Tulip

138

Q-Ship Tamarisk

138

Q-Ship Candytuft

174

Q-Ship Candytuft

176

Q-Sailing-Ship Fresh Hope

188

Q-Ship Record Reign

188

Q-Sailing-Ship Rentoul

190

Q-Sailing-Ship Rentoul (Gun Crew)

190

The Master of the Collier Farnborough

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Q-Ship Farnborough

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Q-Ship Farnborough

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Q-Ship Farnborough

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S.S. Lodorer

196

Q-Ship Pargust

198

Q-Ship Sarah Jones

198

Q-Ship Dunraven

200

Bridge of Q-Ship Dunraven

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After the Battle

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Dunraven Doomed

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Q-Ship Dunraven

208

Q-Ship Dunraven

212

Q-Ship Dunraven

214

Officers and Crew of the Q-Ship Dunraven

216

Q-Ship Barranca (Two Illustrations)

220

Q-Ship Barranca (Two Illustrations)

222

Q-Ship Transformation

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Q-Ship Barranca at Sea

234

DIAGRAMS, ETC., IN THE TEXT.

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1.

Action of Baralong on August 19, 1915

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2.

Action of Baralong on September 24, 1915

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3.

Action of Margit on January 17, 1916

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4.

Action of Werribee on February 9, 1916

37
5.

Action of Farnborough on April 15, 1916

45
6.

Action of Helgoland on October 24, 1916

63
7.

Action of Salvia on October 20, 1916

99
8.

Action of Saros on November 3, 1916

103
9.

Action of Penshurst on November 29, 1916

110
10.

Action of Penshurst on November 30, 1916

113
11.

Action of Penshurst on January 14, 1917

118
12.

The Humorous Side of Q-Ship Warfare

127
13.

Farnborough’s Farewell

196
14.

Action of Pargust on June 7, 1917

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15.

The Great Decision

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16.

Letter from the First Lord of the Admiralty to Captain Gordon Campbell

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‘The necessitie of a Historie is, as of a Sworne Witnesse, to say the truth (in just discretion) and nothing but the truth.’

Samuel Purchas in ‘Purchas His Pilgrimes,’ 1625.


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