Fighting the U-boats
Surface Escorts
The V Class destroyer HMCS Sioux
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DD | The biggest threat to the U-boats early in the war
was the fully equipped destroyer. |
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DE | Over 500 commissioned from 1943 - 1945 these became one the most formidable U-boat hunters around. |
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| From early 1943 these were the mainstream U-boat hunters for the Commonwealth Navies. |
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CVE | 136 of those were commissioned in the war. Some formed
very formidable hunter killer groups with several DE's. |
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Roughly half of the convoy escort in the North Atlantic were corvettes. Mostly of the Flower class. |
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Somewhat similar to the corvettes but better armed and with longer range they were effective U-boat hunters. |
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The collective term for US Coast Guard ships |
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These illustrated the sheer desperation the Royal Navy felt when it came to defend against the U-boats. |