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The Royal Naval Patrol Service at war |
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| "In the accounts already published about the Battle of the Atlantic and the long struggle against the U-boats, attention is not unnaturally focused more upon famous destroyer captains and the dashing individuals who later commanded the fast, well-equiped ships of the specially formed submarine-hunting groups, such as Walker of Western Approaches. Little of the limelight falls upon the anti-submarrine trawlers of the RN. Patrol Service. Yet these humble, unglamorous little ships with their slow speed, limited armament and comparatively untrained crews were to prove just as much of a headache to the Nazi U-boat fleet as their bigger sisters in the Navy's general service.' |
A.Cecil Hampshire "The Lilliput Fleet" 1957
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The most important distinction given to the Royal Naval Patrol Service was an exclusive silver badge. Officers and men of the Patrol Service were awarded this badge after a total of six months service at sea. Read More .... |
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Over 500 convoys sailed over the course of the war (one every three days).This required almost superhuman effort to maintain the' Life Line' Read More .... |
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A "big ship battle" in miniature was how it was described in the Lloyd's List and Shipping Gazette of January 26, 1945 - 5 trawlers taking the parts of battleships-
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