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HMS ''Pargust'' was a Royal Navy warship that was active during World War I. She was a Special Service Vessel (also known as Q-ships) used by the RN in anti-submarine warfare. ''Pargust'' was active in this role during the last two years of the war, and was successful on one occasion, destroying the U-boat ''UC-29''. ==Early career== ''Pargust'' was built in 1907 as a collier, and was originally named ''Vittoria''. She had an uneventful peacetime career before the start of World War I. In 1917 she was requisitioned by the Royal Navy for conversion into a special service vessel. She was taken in hand at Cardiff, and converted for her new role at the Devonport naval base. The collier was armed with five guns, a 4-inch gun and four 12-pounder naval guns, and two torpedo tubes, all in concealed mountings. She was also fitted with a gun in plain sight; as many merchant ships were defensively armed by this stage of the war, ''Pargust'' would have looked suspicious without it.〔Chatterton p200〕 Q ship crews of this period had developed evolutions to give a half-hearted defence before abandoning ship, to reinforce the impression they were just helpless merchantmen. She was manned with a volunteer crew and commanded by Commander Gordon Campbell, who transferred with his crew from ''Farnborough'', another Q ship. She was renamed ''Pargust'' and commissioned on 28 March 1917. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「HMS Pargust」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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