Editing Q-ship (section)

==Q-ships in fiction==
The [[Alfred Noyes]] poem "Kilmeny" is about a Q-ship, a British trawler equipped with two deck guns, that destroys a German submarine during World War I.

In [[Ernest Hemingway]]'s novel ''[[Islands in the Stream (novel)|Islands in the Stream]]'', the main character Thomas Hudson commands a Q-ship for the US Navy around Cuba as he hunts the survivors of a sunken German U-boat.

In [[Edward L. Beach Jr.]]'s novel ''[[Run Silent, Run Deep]]'', Japanese Q-ships make two appearances with one surprising the Walrus and the second being attacked by the ''Eel'' in the final battle of the story.

[[Malcolm Lowry]]'s novel ''[[Under the Volcano]]'' (1947) tells the story of Geoffrey Firmin, an alcoholic British [[Consulate general|consul]] in the small Mexican town of [[Cuernavaca|Quauhnahuac]], on the [[Day of the Dead]], 2 November 1938. Geoffrey Firmin reflects back to his time as a naval officer during [[World War I]], when he was court-martialed and subsequently decorated for his actions aboard a Q-ship (the captured German officers disappeared and were allegedly burned alive in the boiler).

In the [[Clive Cussler]] book series ''[[Oregon Files]]'', the main base of operations is a Q-ship, a converted lumber carrier. The crew are mercenaries and former US covert and military personnel who carry out missions around the world in support of US policy while earning their living performing mercenary operations.

The 1951 movie ''[[Operation Pacific]]'' features a battle with a Q-Ship by the fictional submarine USS ''Thunderfish'', inspired by an encounter with an enemy ship by the [[USS Growler (SS-215)|USS ''Growler'']].

===In science fiction===

As with other naval concepts, the idea of a Q-ship has also been applied to space vessels in fictional works:

Q-ships feature prominently in [[David Weber]]'s [[Honor Harrington]] series of books. Harrington destroys a Q-ship in the first novel, ''[[On Basilisk Station]]'', and commands a squadron of Q-ships in the sixth novel, ''[[Honor Among Enemies]]''. In the tenth book in the series, ''[[War of Honor]]'', Thomas Bachfisch commands a pair of privately owned Q-ships.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://baencd.thefifthimperium.com/09-AtAllCostsCD/AtAllCostsCD/War%20of%20Honor/0743435451___4.htm|archive-url=https://archive.today/20120709180924/http://baencd.thefifthimperium.com/09-AtAllCostsCD/AtAllCostsCD/War%20of%20Honor/0743435451___4.htm|archive-date=2012-07-09|title=Chapter Four|url-status=dead}}</ref>

In the Jan/Feb 2020 issue of [[Analog Science Fiction and Fact]], Joel Richards has a short story titled "Q-ship Militant".

In DC Comics Star Spangled War Stories #71 (reprinted in DC Comics Weird War #1) the story "The End of the Sea Wolf!" is a postwar "flashback" story of a U-boat commander engaging a Q-ship in WWII.