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Q-boats. These British warships disguised as merchant ships destroyed many a German U-boat during World War II. “Panic parties,” men who abandoned ship when fired upon, were launched by these decoys, tempting the U-boats to come closer so that concealed guns manned by hidden crews could blast them out of the water. They took their name from an abbrevia- tion of the Latin quaere “inquire” (which the U-boats did). Q-boats were also called hush-hush ships and mystery ships. |