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    Ocean escort was a type of United States Navy warship. They were an evolution of the World War II destroyer escort types. The ocean escorts were intended...
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    with the endurance necessary to escort mid-ocean convoys of merchant marine ships. Development of the destroyer escort was promoted by the British need...
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    frigates were United States Navy warships. These frigates were originally ocean escorts bearing the hull classification DE until 1975. The ships were commissioned...
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    It includes the hull classification symbols DE (both Destroyer Escort and Ocean Escort), DEG, and DER. The Lend-Lease Act was passed into law in the US...
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    ocean escorts. From the 1950s to 1975, the US Navy had three types of fast task force escorts and one type of convoy escort. The task force escorts were...
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    HMS Banff & Fishguard Mid-Ocean Escort Force Escort Group B2 Escort Group B6 Escort Group B7 5th Escort Group 36th Escort Group Hunter-killer Group Hague...
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    usually perform several operational roles from search-and-destroy to ocean escort to sea denial. The term "cruiser", which has been in use for several...
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    Mid-Ocean Escort Force (MOEF) referred to the organisation of anti-submarine escorts for World War II trade convoys between Canada and Newfoundland, and...
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    second-generation anti-submarine warfare (ASW) escorts. Originally laid down as ocean escorts (formerly called destroyer escorts), they were all redesignated as frigates...
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  • Navy ships. The 1975 ship reclassification of cruisers, frigates, and ocean escorts brought U.S. Navy classifications into line with other nations' classifications...
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