The Ship That Died of Shame, released in the United States as PT Raiders, is a black-and-white 1955 Ealing Studios crime film directed by Basil Dearden and starring Richard Attenborough, George Baker, Bill Owen and Virginia McKenna.

[4] The Monthly Film Bulletin wrote: "As an adventure story, The Ship That Died of Shame could do with greater pace and variety of incident; the material is thinly stretched, and the prologue, with the rather sickly romantic scones between Randall and Helen, has little relevance to the later action.

The direction, though workmanlike, lacks character; one is scarcely made authentically to feel the men's devotion to the 1087, with the result that the animistic view of the ship seems a sentimental fantasy tacked on to a basically conventional thriller.

"[5] Time Out called it "A valuable record of bewildered British masculinity in the post-war years," before dismissing it as "a pretty threadbare thriller";[6] but TV Guide noted that "With a highly original premise...this movie starts in an exciting fashion and seldom slows down to take on more fuel.

It lurches uncomfortably between comedy, social drama and thriller as it follows the fortunes of the washed-up crew of a motor torpedo boat, who recondition the old tub and turn to smuggling because Britain no longer has anything to offer its one-time heroes.