03 April 2004DOHA - Qatar Shipping Company (Q-Ship), has recently increased its fully-owned offshore fleet to seven vessels with the arrival of its new 55-tonne tanker berthing assistance tug, 'Wassit ...

During World War I, the British navy disguised some of its warships as civilian cargo ships, known as Q Ships, in order to fool the Germans. German U-boat commander Capt. Von Haag spots one of these ...

The Russians appear to have learned a variation of a maritime ploy – to hide a ship’s mission capability – first used by the British during World War I. German submarines, known as U-boats, proved ...