Result (schooner)
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 United Kingdom
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| Name: | Result |
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| Builder: | Paul Rodgers & Co. and Robert Kent & Co., Carrickfergus, Northern Ireland |
| Yard number: | 39 |
| Laid down: | 1892 |
| Launched: | 6 January 1893 |
| In service: | 1893 |
| Out of service: | 1967 |
| Identification: | Official number: 99937 |
| Fate: | Sold to the Ulster Folk and Transport Museum, 1970 |
| Status: | Museum ship |
 United Kingdom
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| Name: | HMS Result (Q23) |
| Acquired: | by requisition, January 1917 |
| Commissioned: | February 1917 |
| Decommissioned: | July 1917 |
| Fate: | Returned to owners, August 1917 |
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| Type: | Cargo schooner / Q-ship |
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| Length: | 102 ft (31 m) o/a |
| Beam: | 21 ft 8 in (6.60 m) |
| Depth: | 7 ft 6 in (2.29 m) |
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| Complement: | 23 (in RN service) |
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Result is a three-masted cargo schooner built in Carrickfergus in 1893. She was a working ship until 1967, and served for a short time in the Royal Navy as a Q-ship during World War I. She currently rests on land at the Ulster Folk and Transport Museum, and in 1996 was added to the National Register of Historic Vessels.
The ship was ordered from the Paul Rodgers & Co. yard in Carrickfergus, Northern Ireland, by the shipping company Thomas Ashburner & Co., based in Barrow. The ship was laid down in early 1892, but financial problems forced Rodgers to sell his yard to Robert Kent & Co. of Ayr, before she was complete, and Kent & Co. finally launched the ship in January 1893. The design was a collaboration between Paul Rodgers, Richard Ashburner and Capt. Robert Wright, and in consequence she was named the "Result".
Result was operated by the Ashburner company until 1909, when she was sold for £1,100 to Capt. Henry Clarke of Braunton, North Devon. In March 1914 a 45 bhp single-cylinder Kromhout auxiliary engine was fitted.
In January 1917 Result was requisitioned by the Royal Navy to act as a Q-ship with the pennant number Q23. She was armed with two 12-pounder guns forward and aft of the mainmast, a 6-pounder gun forward, and two fixed 14-inch torpedo tubes aft. The crew of 23 were commanded by Lieutenant Philip Mack RN, and the second-in-command was Lt. George Muhlhauser RNR.
The usual procedure for U-boats attacking small merchant ships was to surface and fire a warning shot, then allow the crew to abandon ship before closing and sinking it with shellfire from her deck gun. The Q-ships would simulate the abandoning of the ship by a small "panic party", and allow the U-boat to approach before raising the White Ensign and opening fire with her concealed weapons.
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