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    The Banff-class sloop was a group of ten warships of the Royal Navy. Built as United States Coast Guard Lake-class cutters, in 1941 these ships were loaned...
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  • off the coast of Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria: HMS Walney (Y04) was a Banff-class sloop launched in 1930 as USCGC Sebago. She was transferred to the Royal...
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    HMS Ibis Bittern-class sloop: HMS Enchantress Grimsby-class sloop: HMS Aberdeen Banff-class sloops: HMS Hartland & Walney Shoreham-class sloop: HMS Weston...
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  • Flower-class corvette Castle-class corvette 24-class sloop Bridgewater-class sloop[page needed] Hastings-class sloop Banff-class sloop Shoreham-class sloop[page needed]...
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    during Operation Shingle 23 January 1944) SS John Banvard (damaged) Banff-class sloop HMS Landguard (slightly damaged with Bideford in Bay of Biscay 25...
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    USCGC Itasca (1929) (category Banff-class sloops)
    HMS Landguard and HMS Lulworth, Lend-Lease destroyer HMS Stanley and Shoreham-class sloop HMS Bideford. After escorting convoys OS 4, SL 87, OS 10, SL 93, OS 12...
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    USCGC Chelan (category Banff-class sloops)
    the British commissioned her into naval service the same day. Rated as a sloop-of-war, she served in the Royal Navy with the name HMS Lulworth (Y60). She...
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    War II Arms Export Control Act Billion Dollar Gift and Mutual Aid Banff-class sloop Battle of the Atlantic Cash and carry (World War II) Destroyers for...
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    patrols. After being transferred to the Royal Navy the newly named HMS Banff (Y43) was commissioned on 30 April 1941 . On 8 August 1942, she rescued...
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    USCGC Tahoe (category Banff-class sloops)
    USCGC Tahoe was a Lake-class cutter of the United States Coast Guard launched on 12 June 1928 and commissioned on 8 November 1928. After 13 years of service...
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    USCGC Cayuga (category Banff-class sloops)
    transferred to the Royal Navy where she served as HMS Totland (Y88), a Banff-class sloop from 1941 to 1946. After being returned to the USCG in 1946, she was...
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    USCGC Champlain (category Banff-class sloops)
    USCGC Champlain was a Lake-class cutter of the United States Coast Guard, launched on 20 June 1928 and commissioned on 23 March 1929. After 12 years of...
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    USCGC Shoshone (category Banff-class sloops)
    USCGC Shoshone was a Lake-class cutter of the United States Coast Guard launched on 12 November 1932 and commissioned on 6 January 1933. After being commissioned...
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    USCGC Pontchartrain (1928) (category Banff-class sloops)
    USCGC Pontchartrain was a Lake-class cutter belonging to the United States Coast Guard launched on 16 June 1928 and commissioned on 13 October 1928 ....
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    Sixth-rate, corvette, and sloop classes of the Royal Navy. During the Age of Sail, warships were divided into ranks or classes. The English Royal Navy adopted...
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    USS Charger (CVE-30) Bogue-class escort carriers Tambor-class submarines Treasury-class cutters Banff-class sloops (USCG Lake class cutters) Tampa-class cutters 5"/51...
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    USCGC Sebago (1930) (category Banff-class sloops)
    May 1941 under the Lend-Lease Agreement. Walney joined the Londonderry Sloop Division in June, and was assigned to escort the passage of the Atlantic...
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    Caldwell-class, 27 Wickes-class and 20 Clemson-class destroyers. United Kingdom portal United States portal Politics portal Banff-class sloops, similarly...
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    HMS Culver (category Banff-class sloops)
    USCGC Mendota was a Lake-class cutter belonging to the United States Coast Guard launched on 20 June 1928 and commissioned on 23 March 1929. After 12...
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  • that they would actually co-operate with the landing forces. Two Banff-class sloops, HMS Walney and HMS Hartland were used to land the troops. The landing...
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    frigate-class ships, such as US Navy "destroyer escorts", and British "escort destroyers" and sloops but US Navy "escort destroyers", are destroyer-class vessels...
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    by the 1st Support Group consisting of the Banff-class sloop HMS Sennen (Capt. G Brewer) with the River-class frigates HMS Wear, HMS Jed and HMS Spey. Within...
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    HMS Malaya (category Queen Elizabeth-class battleships)
    four months. During that time, personnel from the ship ferried ten Banff-class sloops to Britain. On 9 July, under the command of Captain Cuthbert Coppinger...
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    include: A-class destroyers Admiral-class ironclads Adventure-class cruisers Apollo-class cruisers B-class destroyers Banff-class sloops British H-class submarines...
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  • was sunk with all hands by hedgehog attacks from the Banff-class sloop HMS Sennen and the River-class frigate HMS Jed, both escorting Convoy SC 130. One...
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    September 1941 Argonauta-class submarine Fisalia was sunk by Hyacinth on 28 September 1941 U-204 was sunk by Mallow and the sloop Rochester on 19 October...
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  • 92. "FR Argonaute of the French Navy - French Submarine of the Argonaute class - Allied Warships of WWII". uboat.net. 12 April 2023. Retrieved 13 April...
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  • 1983, when it was merged with HMS Raleigh HMS Fishguard (Y59) was a Banff-class sloop, formerly USCGC Tahoe transferred from the US Coast Guard in 1941...
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    facilities and scuttling of ships. Operation Reservist failed, as the two Banff-class sloops were destroyed by crossfire from the French vessels there. The Vichy...
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  • & Sawyer 1990, pp. 389–90. Sources Hague, Arnold (1993). Sloops: A History of the 71 Sloops Built in Britain and Australia for the British, Australian...
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