Q-ship - definizione. Che cos'è Q-ship
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Cosa (chi) è Q-ship - definizione


Q-ship         
  • HMS ''President'' in the Thames
  • Anacapa}}
  • Q-ships hid naval guns behind moveable or pivoting panels
  • SS ''Carolyn'', aka USS ''Atik''
  • SS ''Big Horn''
  • USS ''Irene Forsyte''
SHIP TYPE
Q ship; Q-boat; Q-ships; Q Boat; Q-Ship; Q Ship; Q ships; Decoy vessels; Special service ships
Q-ships, also known as Q-boats, decoy vessels, special service ships, or mystery ships, were heavily armed merchant ships with concealed weaponry, designed to lure submarines into making surface attacks. This gave Q-ships the chance to open fire and sink them.
Q-ship         
  • HMS ''President'' in the Thames
  • Anacapa}}
  • Q-ships hid naval guns behind moveable or pivoting panels
  • SS ''Carolyn'', aka USS ''Atik''
  • SS ''Big Horn''
  • USS ''Irene Forsyte''
SHIP TYPE
Q ship; Q-boat; Q-ships; Q Boat; Q-Ship; Q Ship; Q ships; Decoy vessels; Special service ships
¦ noun a merchant ship with concealed weapons, used in an attempt to destroy submarines.
Origin
First World War: from Q as a non-explicit symbol of the type of vessel + ship.
Q with stroke         
  • Q with diagonal stroke in [[Doulos SIL]]
  • French-language]] extract of page 9 of [[Joachim du Bellay]]'s 1549 work ''[[La Défense et illustration de la langue française]]''. The text of the extract is: ''Barbares anciẽnement etoint nõmez ceux, '''ꝗ''' ĩeptemẽt ꝑloint Grec.''
LETTER OF THE LATIN ALPHABET
Q̵; Ꝗ; Ꝗꝗ; Ꝙ
Q with stroke (Ꝗ, ꝗ) is a letter of the Latin alphabet, derived from writing the letter Q with the addition of a bar through the letter's descender. The letter was used by scribes during the Middle Ages, where it was employed primarily as an abbreviationa modern parallel of this would be abbreviating the word "and" with an ampersand (&).