HMS Harvester (H19)
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HMS Harvester was an H-class destroyer originally ordered by the Brazilian Navy with the name Jurua in the late 1930s, but bought by the Royal Navy after the beginning of World War II in September 193
HMS Harvester after 1942 conversion to escort destroyer
Newfoundland Escort Force
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Newfoundland Escort Force was a Second World War naval command that operated out of the Dominion of Newfoundland. Created on 20 May 1941 as part of the Allied convoy system in the Battle of the Atlant
HMS Harvester (H19)
…submarine in October. She was briefly assigned to Force H in May 1941, but her anti-aircraft armament was deemed too weak and she was transferred to the Newfoundland Escort Force in June 1941 for escort duties in the North Atlantic. The ship was returned to the Western Approaches Command in October 1941 and was converted to an…
HMCS Chambly, one of the Canadian Flower-class corvettes assigned to NEF
Commander of the Newfoundland Escort Force, Leonard W. Murray in 1942
A U-boat on the surface