Ocean escort was a type of United States Navy warship. They were an evolution of the World War II destroyer escort types. The ocean escorts were intended...
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Mid-Ocean Escort Force (MOEF) referred to the organisation of anti-submarine escorts for World War II trade convoys between Canada and Newfoundland, and...
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with the endurance necessary to escort mid-ocean convoys of merchant marine ships. Development of the destroyer escort was promoted by the British need...
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HMS Banff & Fishguard Mid-Ocean Escort Force Escort Group B2 Escort Group B6 Escort Group B7 5th Escort Group 36th Escort Group Hunter-killer Group Hague...
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Garcia-class frigate (redirect from Garcia-class ocean escort)
frigates were United States Navy warships. These frigates were originally ocean escorts bearing the hull classification DE until 1975. The ships were commissioned...
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ocean escorts. From the 1950s to 1975, the US Navy had three types of fast task force escorts and one type of convoy escort. The task force escorts were...
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It includes the hull classification symbols DE (both Destroyer Escort and Ocean Escort), DEG, and DER. The Lend-Lease Act was passed into law in the US...
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usually perform several operational roles from search-and-destroy to ocean escort to sea denial. The term "cruiser", which has been in use for several...
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Navy ships. The 1975 ship reclassification of cruisers, frigates, and ocean escorts brought U.S. Navy classifications into line with other nations' classifications...
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Knox-class frigate (redirect from Knox-class destroyer escort)
second-generation anti-submarine warfare (ASW) escorts. Originally laid down as ocean escorts (formerly called destroyer escorts), they were all redesignated as frigates...
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vessels, to fit them for specific tasks such as convoy work. Destroyer escort Ocean escort Derdall, Guy; DiGiulian, Tony. "USN Ship Designations". NavWeaps...
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Convoy PQ 16 (section Close convoy escort)
convoy was the largest yet and was provided with a considerable number of escorts and submarines. QP 12, a return convoy, sailed on the same day As Operation...
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DE: Destroyer escort (World War II, later became Ocean escort) DE: Ocean escort (abolished 30 June 1975) DEG: Guided missile ocean escort (abolished 30...
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Convoy ON 92 (section Convoy escorts)
It was escorted by mid-ocean escort group A-3, comprising the United States Navy destroyer Gleaves (Capt. J Heffernan as Senior Officer Escort), the United...
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Operation Dervish (1941) (section Escorts)
protected by an ocean escort comprising the destroyer Electra and the Anti-submarine warfare trawlers Hamlet and Macbeth. The ocean escort was joined later...
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Atlantic Ocean, the Newfoundland Escort Force (NEF) was instituted to cover the convoy escort gap that existed between the local convoy escort in Canada...
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aviso corvettes, mainly designed for coastal anti-submarine defense and ocean escort missions. Their robust design and economical propulsion system allows...
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20 December 1943. Close escort was provided by two destroyers and three other escort vessels. There was also an Ocean escort, comprising the destroyer...
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destroyer escorts were the first post-World War II escort ships built for the United States Navy. Slightly faster and larger than the escort destroyers...
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The Castle-class corvette was an ocean going convoy escort developed by the United Kingdom during the Second World War. It was the follow-on to the Flower-class...
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Convoy QP 1 (section Escort vessels)
The ocean escort comprised the destroyer Electra and the ASW trawlers Hamlet, Macbeth and Ophelia which had escorted the Dervish ships. Local escort was...
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Convoy QP 14 (section Fighting Destroyer Escort)
smaller escort craft. At 6:30 a.m. about 71°N 11°W / 71°N 11°W / 71; -11, U-435 got inside the escort screen and quickly sank Bellingham, Ocean Voice...
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USS Albert David (category Cold War frigates and destroyer escorts of the United States)
into 1969. A voyage to Hawaii followed in March. Early in April, the ocean escort began five weeks of refresher training out of San Diego. On 1 May 1969...
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Boucher, accompanied by a close escort of two destroyers, HMCS Huron and HMCS Haida, among others, and an ocean escort of eight Home Fleet destroyers led...
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ships departed New York City 23 February 1943; and were met by the Mid-Ocean Escort Force Group A-3 consisting of the United States Coast Guard (USCG) Treasury-class...
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USCGC Ossipee (section Ocean escort)
protection of only one warship, the ocean escort. On inbound convoys, the danger zone escort relieved the ocean escort from duty and accompanied the convoys...
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aviso corvettes, mainly designed for coastal anti-submarine defense and ocean escort missions. Limbo Squid Hedgehog RBU-6000 Weapon Alpha Terne "Warships...
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American port cities to the Western Ocean Meeting Point (WOMP or WESTOMP) near Newfoundland where ships of the Mid-Ocean Escort Force (MOEF) assumed responsibility...
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operations to off-shore anti-submarine work and denied them an open-ocean escort capability; their high consumption of gasoline and limited fuel storage...
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(RCN) and renamed Gatineau. She was assigned to convoy escort duties with the Mid-Ocean Escort Force and participated in sinking a German submarine in...
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