[3] She currently rests on land at the Ulster Folk and Transport Museum,[2] and in 1996 was added to the National Register of Historic Vessels.

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.

On 15 March 1917, Result was on her first patrol, sailing off the south end of the Dogger Bank, under the flag of the neutral Netherlands, when she spotted the German submarine UC-45 on the surface astern about two miles off.

The "panic party" of five men rowed away in a small boat, leaving the seemingly abandoned vessel to the Germans.

Result sustained some damage to her sails and rigging, and eventually Mack gave the order to attack, and the aft 12-pounder hit the submarine in the conning tower with its first shot.

[3] Result had no further success in attracting submarines, and it was not until several months later that the Navy learned that she had been photographed and identified as a decoy by the Germans.

In July 1917 the crew of Result were transferred to another Q-ship, and as the Navy could find no other use for her she was returned to her owners in August 1917.

[3] After the war Result was employed transporting Welsh slate, sailing from Portmadoc to Antwerp and other ports, and then along the south coast of England.

Tom Welch, also of Braunton, but shortly before the outbreak of World War II sole ownership passed to Capt.

In 1950 she was hired to take part in the filming of Outcast of the Islands, directed by Carol Reed, and starring Trevor Howard and Ralph Richardson.