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Re: Allied escorts
Posted by: Patricia Yates ()
Date: November 17, 2006 09:22PM

Researching my father's Navy history 25/07/1927 - 23/03/1945.
Unfamiliar with terms or ships but want to obtain any information re. WW2.
I understand he was in 'V' class but any information relating to the (vessels?) ships etc. would be welcome.
DRAKE,
(transfered to class D3X2 15 june 1939, whatever that is)
PEMBROKE (HUSSAR)?
LYNX /HUSSAR
BEAVER /HUSSAR
DRAKE
VANITY /COCHRANE 2
MERGANSER /714
(reverted to class B RFR no B15632
Discharged from RFR DEVENPORT.
Thankyou
Bryan Burrow wrote:

> Ron.C. - the `Captain Class' frigates were all welded using
> (in my opinion, having served one one)the thinnest of steel,
> and were built upside down, so that they were rolled over on
> launch, keel down...buckling in heavy seas. We in tyhe 1st
> Escort Group, Escorted the Manxman on a minelaying expedition
> and wound up with cracks athwartships due to the vibrations of
> our engines going the mxa. speed we could muster in an effort
> to keep up !

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