escort destroyer

The escort destroyer spent the rest of the year in local operations.

At some point, the ship was converted to an escort destroyer.

The ship was recalled home to be converted into an escort destroyer in late 1942.

The ship was converted to an escort destroyer and sank one submarine during the war.

He then escaped the depth charge attacks of the escorting destroyers.

An escorting destroyer dropped a pattern of ten depth charges over U-31.

All eight transports and four of the escorting destroyers were sunk.

Right into the flank of one of the escorting destroyers.

The Ark Royal was well behind with two escorting destroyers.

Whilst under repair in early 1943, the ship was converted to an escort destroyer.

The carrier and her escorting destroyer were quickly sunk by the Japanese aircraft.

Escort destroyer, A warship assigned to protect merchant ships in time of war.

This course would provide a lee from the strong winds, allowing escorting destroyers to keep pace with her.

Although the two escorting destroyers counterattacked U-29 for four hours, the submarine escaped.

The ship remained there only briefly before being transferred home to begin a conversion to an escort destroyer.

She, too, was recalled to the UK to be modified as an escort destroyer.

Around this time her pennant number was changed to L49, to match those used by escort destroyers.

On 2 June, the escort destroyer sailed for her second western Pacific deployment.

At 14:30 the next day, the British were faced by a pair of heavy cruisers and escorting destroyers.

When she attempted to surface, she was shelled by the escorting destroyers.

The aircraft were lost but all the pilots were picked up by escorting destroyers.

Although she appears to be human, her true form is a retired Escort Destroyer class starship.

Sands and the escorting destroyer opened fire, silencing the coastal guns.

We could see underneath transport ships with escort destroyers steaming on a blue water several times."

They returned to the UK late in the year to begin conversions to escort destroyers.