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...

Mid-Ocean Escort Force (MOEF) referred to the organisation of anti-submarine escorts for World War II trade convoys between Canada and Newfoundland, and...

with the endurance necessary to escort mid-ocean convoys of merchant marine ships. Development of the destroyer escort was promoted by the British need...

frigates were United States Navy warships. These frigates were originally ocean escorts bearing the hull classification DE until 1975. The ships were commissioned...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Navy ships. The 1975 ship reclassification of cruisers, frigates, and ocean escorts brought U.S. Navy classifications into line with other nations' classifications...

second-generation anti-submarine warfare (ASW) escorts. Originally laid down as ocean escorts (formerly called destroyer escorts), they were all redesignated as frigates...

vessels, to fit them for specific tasks such as convoy work. Destroyer escort Ocean escort Derdall, Guy; DiGiulian, Tony. "USN Ship Designations". NavWeaps...

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...

protected by an ocean escort comprising the destroyer Electra and the Anti-submarine warfare trawlers Hamlet and Macbeth. The ocean escort was joined later...

DE: Destroyer escort (World War II, later became Ocean escort) DE: Ocean escort (abolished 30 June 1975) DEG: Guided missile ocean escort (abolished 30...

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...

Atlantic Ocean, the Newfoundland Escort Force (NEF) was instituted to cover the convoy escort gap that existed between the local convoy escort in Canada...

aviso corvettes, mainly designed for coastal anti-submarine defense and ocean escort missions. Their robust design and economical propulsion system allows...

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...

20 December 1943. Close escort was provided by two destroyers and three other escort vessels. There was also an Ocean escort, comprising the destroyer...

The ocean escort comprised the destroyer Electra and the ASW trawlers Hamlet, Macbeth and Ophelia which had escorted the Dervish ships. Local escort was...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

aviso corvettes, mainly designed for coastal anti-submarine defense and ocean escort missions. Limbo Squid Hedgehog RBU-6000 Weapon Alpha Terne "Warships...

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...

operations to off-shore anti-submarine work and denied them an open-ocean escort capability; their high consumption of gasoline and limited fuel storage...

(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...