The Lady Olive was a so-called Q ship, a converted cargo vessel designed to lure U-boats before unleashing her concealed firepower. She sank in February 1917 and possibly – though no one knows ...

Its target, the Lady Olive, was about eight miles off the west coast of Guernsey in the Channel Islands, or so the old story goes. A 200-foot-long coal trader, the Lady Olive was an old ...

MOUNT OLIVE, N.C. — It was an evening for celebrating Mrs. Rose M. Raper, First Lady of Mount Olive College (MOC), now the University of Mount Olive (UMO) from 1954-1995. With 41 years of ...

On the morning of 19 February 1917, German submarine UC-18 opened fire on Royal Navy Q-ship the Lady Olive. As the U-boat drew near to assess the damage it had inflicted, the Lady Olive counter ...

The submarine was taken down on 19 February 1917, after attacking the HMS Lady Olive - which the German forces believed to be a British merchant ship. Unbeknownst to the submarine crew ...

The vessel UC-18 was lost in 1917 after a battle with a secret Royal Navy ship, Lady Olive, which was also sunk. It took a team four years to locate and verify the find in the English Channel ...

For decades, divers and historians have searched to discover the fate of German submarine UC18 and Royal Navy Q-Ship the Lady Olive that were both said to have sunk in 1917. The programme follows ...