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Exam hospital trawler, returned Aug 1946 HMT Avonstream: Sep 1939: Minesweeper, returned Jul 1945 HMT Avonwater: Sep 1939: Boom defence vessel, returned May 1946 HMT Ayrshire: Sep 1939: Anti-submarine, returned Oct 1945
The Indian Navy used naval trawlers for patrol duties during its involvement in the Sri Lankan civil war. [2] North Korea has notoriously used armed trawlers as spy ships . In 2001 the Japanese sank a North Korean naval trawler after a six-hour battle known as the battle of Amami-Ōshima .
Lund, Paul and Ludlam, Harry (1971) The Trawlers go to War ISBN 978-0-572-00768-3; Lund, Paul and Ludlam, Harry (1978) Out Sweeps! - The Story of the Minesweepers in World War II. New English Library Ltd ISBN 978-0-450-04468-7; McKee, Alexander (1973) The Coal-Scuttle Brigade : The splendid, dramatic story of the Channel convoys.
At the beginning of the Second World War, the Royal Navy was the strongest navy in the world. It had 20 battleships and battlecruisers ready for service or under construction, twelve aircraft carriers, over 90 light and heavy cruisers, 70 submarines, over 100 destroyers as well as numerous escort ships, minelayers, minesweepers and 232 aircraft.
The Military class of Admiralty trawlers was a small class of trawlers built for the Royal Navy during the Second World War.. The vessels were intended for use as minesweepers and for anti-submarine warfare, and the design was based on a commercial type, Lady Madeleine by Cook Welton and Gemmell of Beverley. [2]
The Mersey class was a class of Admiralty naval trawlers built for the Royal Navy (or other government institutions) prior to World War II. [2] Admiralty meant they were built for military service as opposed to conversions of existing boats. The majority of the vessels were built to a standard design but a few included in the class were built ...
The USS Enterprise (CV-6), an aircraft carrier, was the most decorated American naval vessel to fight in World War II and played a crucial role. During the war, Enterprise guns and planes shot ...
The Round Table class was a small class of trawlers built for the British Royal Navy in 1941–1942. [1] The class were built by two Aberdeen shipbuilding firms Hall, Russell & Company and J. Lewis & Sons Ltd. [2] All were built to a 1936 design, the Star of Orkney, [3] by Hall, Russell & Co but were commissioned as minesweepers. [4]