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Digitised by Google Books from the collection at the University of Michigan https://books.google.com/books?id=K1e0AAAAMAAJ An immense miscellaneous fleet serving under Admiral Sir Lewis Bayly, consisting of “mystery ships, sloop flotillas, its armed trawlers, drifters, M.L.’s [Motor-launches] ; and-during the second phase-its American destroyers, submarine-chasers, British and American submarines as well as rescue tugs” Mystery ships , also known as a Q ships, were heavily armed merchant ships with concealed weaponry, designed to lure submarines into making surface attacks.
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World War 1914-1918 · World War 1914-1918 – naval operations · World War 1914-1918 – Great Britain - naval operations · Great Britain – Royal Navy · Great Britain – Royal Navy – Queenstown Command · World War 1914-1918 – naval operations - US Navy