Royal Naval Patrol Service
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The Royal Naval Patrol Service was a branch of the Royal Navy active during both the First and Second World Wars. The RNPS operated many small auxiliary vessels such as naval trawlers for anti-submari
The HMT Ailsa Craig, a minesweeping Isles-class trawler of the RNPS, 1944
Sparrow's Nest as HMS Europa, in Lowestoft. The sailors are waiting to be given their draft or ship by an officer.
Royal Naval Patrol Service Memorial
Grave in Cathays Cemetery, Cardiff of an RNPS Leading Seaman from HMT De Rosa
Naval drifter
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A naval drifter is a boat built along the lines of a commercial fishing drifter but fitted out for naval purposes. The use of naval drifters is paralleled by the use of naval trawlers.
British drifters sailing from their base in the Adriatic to the Otranto Barrage
The Canadian CD-class naval drifter, CD 27, built during World War I for the Royal Canadian Navy. Many became fishing vessels after the war.
A Great Yarmouth drifter George Albert during the war