Escort destroyer
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An escort destroyer was a small warship built to full naval standards which was optimised for air-defence and anti-submarine duties in wartime, but which retained many of the capabilities of a traditi
USS Bache following DDE conversion with Weapon Alpha replacing mount 52.
Destroyer escort
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Destroyer escort was the United States Navy mid-20th-century classification for a 20-knot warship designed with the endurance necessary to escort mid-ocean convoys of merchant marine ships.
Escort destroyer
…reclassified as destroyers (DD). Escort destroyers should not be confused with the cheaper, slower, less capable, and more lightly armed World War II destroyer escorts. Following the outbreak of World War II, the Royal Navy had inadequate numbers of warships suitable for escort of trade convoys. While more modern…
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HMS Dacres, converted to act as a headquarters ship during Operation Neptune