SMS Möwe logs and non u boat WW1 merchant attacks

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>>3287740
>Does anyone know where it's possible to find logs for the SMS Möwe?

Schmalenbach, Paul German raiders: A history of auxiliary cruisers of the German Navy, 1895–1945 (Naval Institute Press 1979) ISBN 0-87021-824-7

Also reminder that there is one Q-ship still in existence docked on the Thames

Sweet Anon. Anybody know anything about the comparison in effectiveness between u boats and q ships?

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>>3290168

>There may have been as many as 366 Q-ships, of which 61 were lost.[5] After the war, it was concluded that Q-ships were greatly overrated, diverting skilled seamen from other duties without sinking enough U-boats to justify the strategy. In a total of 150 engagements, British Q-ships destroyed 14 U-boats and damaged 60, at a cost of 27 Q-ships lost out of 200. Q-ships were responsible for about 10% of all U-boats sunk, ranking them well below the use of ordinary minefields in effectiveness.

Their main effect was enraging the German admiralty into abandoning the cruiser rules and start attacking all ships without warning, which inevitably led to the sinking of the Lusitania and American intervention.

Of course, if you happened to be a believer in (((Perfidious Albion))), one might argue that was the actual intent of the Q-ships. Trick the German navy into attacking shipping indiscriminately and put them in a direct confrontation with the United States.

>That time an Australian Cruiser got BTFO by a German merchant liner with some strapped on guns
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_between_HMAS_Sydney_and_German_auxiliary_cruiser_Kormoran
Worse than the Emu War tbqh

Good thread, some folks in my family were in the British merchant navy during the first world war so I know a bit about them. An indirect relative was a captain and got sunk by a small German cruiser with relatively few casualties and was able to secure good treatment for his crew when the captains discovered they were both Masons. My great-grandad was a junior radio technician on another ship and did the Murmansk run a couple of times, cold as hell apparently.

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>>3290238

>Krauts machine-gunned survivors in the water

>>3287740
>28 or 34 ships

meanwhile on wikipedia
>several

>>3290238
WAR CRIME

>>3290195
>HELP HELP. GERMANY SANK ONE OF OUR AMMUNITION SHIPS, USA HEEEELPPPP

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>When you encounter the ship you're supposed to be disguised as and it's also been converted into a merchant cruiser
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SMS_Cap_Trafalgar#World_War_I_battle_with_Carmania

>>3292307

ruse cruisers