User:Xyl 54/Sandbox 3
Sandbox 3
Page History
[edit]| Title | Written | Posted | Deleted | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2nd Support Group | August 2009 | August 2009 | August 2009 | . (14, 19, 19/reduced to headings, refs) |
| B-7 Escort Group | August 2009 | August 2009 | August 2009 | (19, 25, 25/reduced to headings, refs) |
| 36 Escort Group | August 2009 | August 2009 | August 2009 | (21, 25, 25/reduced to headings, refs) |
| 5 Escort Group | August 2009 | August 2009 | --- | (25, 26, ) |
| B-2 Escort Group | August 2009 | Sept 2009 | Sept 2009 | (25, 3, 7/reduced to headings) |
| Escort Group | August 2009 | Sept 2009 | Sept 2009 | (25, 7, 7/reduced to headings, notes) |
| B-6 Escort Group | Nov-Dec 2009 | Dec 2009 | --- | (28-13, 14 ) |
Completed
[edit]Escort groups for convoy protection were a British development during the war at sea during WWII.
formation of the Royal Navy which saw action during the Second World War, principally in the Battle of the Atlantic.
Formation/background
History
1941
by 1942 there were 25 escort groups deployed by WAC (Roskill p91 comprising 70 destroyers, 18 sloops 67 corvettes and 10 cutters
These fell in to 4 main groups /types .A special escort groups, comprising short range destroyers employed in escorting WS and PQ convoys, and meting troopships from across the Atlantic.
>b long range destroyers and corvettes providing the bullk of the North atlantic escort force.
.C long range destroyers sloops and cutters employed on the South Atlantic route to Freetown OS/SL
.D the antiaircraft vesels which worked the British coastal routes and accompanied Arctic and Gibraltar convoys
A further 2 groups were based at Gibraltar, and a force of 36 warships ( a destroyer flotilla, 5 sloops and 24 corvettes) in South Atlantic Command at Freetown
In the Western Atlantic the 54 vessels (14 destryers and 40 corvettes of RCN formed the NEF, later WLEF
References
- Blair
- Kemp
- Neistle
- Rohwer
- Roskill
Sources
[edit]- Clay Blair : Hitler's U-Boat War Vol I (1996). ISBN 0-304-35260-8
- Clay Blair : Hitler's U-Boat War Vol II (1998) ISBN 0-304-35261-7 Parameter error in {{ISBN}}: checksum
- Peter Gretton Convoy Escort Commander (1964) ISBN (none)
- Arnold Hague : The Allied Convoy System 1939-1945 (2000). ISBN (Canada) 1 55125 033 0 :ISBN (UK) 1 86176 147 3.
- Macintyre Donald : U-Boat Killer (1956) ISBN (none)
- Paul Kemp : U-Boats Destroyed ( 1997) . ISBN 1 85409 515 3
- Axel Neistle : German U-Boat Losses during World War II (1998). ISBN 1 85367 352 8
- Rohwer, J. and Hummelchen, G.: Chronology of the War at Sea 1939-1945 (1992) ISBN 1-55750-105-X
- Stephen Roskill : The War at Sea 1939-1945 Vol I (1954). ISBN (none)
- Stephen Roskill : The War at Sea 1939-1945 Vol III, pt I (1960).ISBN (none)
- DEG Wemyss : Walker's Groups in the Western Approaches (1948).ISBN (none)
External links
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- Firedrake
- [http://www.uboat.net/allies/warships/ship/4386.html firedrake at uboatnet
- [http://www.naval-history.net/xGM-Chrono-10DD-23F-Firedrake.htm firedrake at naval history
- Duncan
- [http://www.naval-history.net/xGM-Chrono-10DD-18D-Duncan.htm duncan at naval history
- Stork
- [http://www.naval-history.net/xGM-Chrono-18SL-Stork.htm stork at naval history
- MacIntyre
- Walker
- http://www.naval-history.net/xGM-Chrono-10DD-09VW-Walker.htm
- http://www.uboat.net/allies/warships/ship/4266.html
- Bickerton
- http://www.naval-history.net/xGM-Chrono-15Fr-Capt-Bickerton.htm
- http://www.uboat.net/allies/warships/ship/5484.html
Categories
[edit][[Category:Military units and formations of the Royal Navy in World War II