SECRETS OF MYSTERY SHIPS

Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 61, 6 December 1920, Page 6

SECRETS OF MYSTERY SHIPS

Secrets of "Q" boats were revealed at the Eoyal Commission on Inventions during a claim by Engineer-Lieutenant DonttMrColeSteiißtds. for the claimant said the device consisted of n pcrtorated steam ~ine which was fitted round the engine; 7m hatch of Y } miS, -PL ] ?M^ im an escape of steam it was intended. *ri*e the enemy submarine the imwasion that a direct hit had been obtained °^h=(Sr b fe S a T that one had read of 'panic-parties _v,ho rushed about pretendine to get the boats °Mr Aforitr. (for the Admiralty) mentioned a so the "bomb baby," which was topped into a boat and wns really a Mr' Cameron, who served on the Acta on, n "Q" boat, said the idea came, to Mm while one of a "panic-party" ■ stand!lM^VMorit 0 z said the device was used on one occasion in the iky of Biscay, where Z "Q° boat. "bagged":«.« «ta}% „ An expert witness stned that the Q boats were a "box of tncks from keel to "'Whatever'our decision," said Mr. Justice Sfirßimt at the close, "wo all ■««» ™ our sense of the self-devotion o? Lieute. ant Cameron and his col eagues who took part, in that most arduous and dangerous work."