Re: What's a Q-ship?

[esw5@postoffice2.mail.cornell.edu (Ernest Wong)]

[from Phil Ethier]

>Of course, the only way to find the sub was to get it to fire a torpedo
>at you.  The problem with this is that it tended to get your ship sunk.
>The solution was that Q-ships had every available airspace filled with
>flotation material.  They were virtually unsinkable.  Sailers used to say
>they were full of ping-pong balls, but I don't know what materials were
>actually used.
>
And we like to fill our Q-ships with go-fast hardware.(and software)
And we are virtually un-ticketable. Well, most of the time till the 'bomb'
gives up the ghost when Rad Detector has all 5 lights lit.

Ernest Wong
esw5@cornell.edu