Little Hawk-

Again what you are saying is certainly backed up by the Q-ship record during World War 1. It's not a matter of opinion.

And if the Kormoran's crew were ordered by the Sydney to abandon ship, they might have tried a similar strategy and achieved a deadly ambush. However, unlike the Q-ships the German raiders did not have additional flotation devices to slow their sinking. Some Q-ships were filled with ping-pong balls or their equivalent but some were sunk anyway.

Charley Noble