6. ESCORTS
1. sloops, escort destroyers and frigates
1. ACACIA fleet sweeping sloops (24, 1915)
2. AZALEA fleet sweeping sloops (12, 1915)
3. ARABIS fleet sweeping sloops (36, 1915 - 1916)
4. AUBRIETIA convoy sloops (12, 1916 - 1918)
5. ANCHUSA convoy sloops (28, 1917 - 1918)
6. "24" type fleet sweeping sloops (SIR BEVIS) (22(2), 1918 - 1919)
9. BRIDGEWATER sloops (2, 1929)
10. HASTINGS sloops (4, 1930 - 1931)
12. SHOREHAM and "Repeat SHOREHAM" sloops (FALMOUTH) (8, 1931 - 1933)
13. GRIMSBY sloops (12, 1934 - 1940)
15. BITTERN sloops (3, 1935 - 1938)
16. EGRET sloops (3, 1938 - 1939)
17. BLACK SWAN sloops (4, 1939 - 1941)
18. "HUNT" 1st type escort destroyers (ATHERSTONE) (23, 1940 - 1941)
19. CALDWELL ex-US destroyers (LEWES) (3, 1917 - 1918 / 1940)
20. WICKES ex-US destroyers (MONTGOMERY) (27, 1918 - 1920 / 1940)
21. CLEMSON ex-US destroyers (BELMONT) (20, 1918 - 1921 / 1940)
22. MISTRAL ex-French destroyer (1, 1927 / 1940)
23. "HUNT" 2nd type escort destroyers (ERIDGE) (32(1), 1941 - 1942)
24. "HUNT" 3rd type escort destroyers (BLEASDALE) (21(7), 1941 - 1943)
25. "Modified BITTERN" sloops (SUTLEJ) (4, 1941 - 1943)
26. ex-US coast guard cutters (LULWORTH) (10, 1928 - 1932 / 1941)
27. "HUNT" 4th type escort destroyers (BRECON) (2, 1942 - 1943)
28. "Modified BLACK SWAN" sloops (WOODPECKER) (29(5), 1942 - 1946)
29. "RIVER" (British- and earlier Canadian-built) frigates (SPEY) (79(6), 1942 - 1944)
30. "RIVER" (Australian-built) frigates (GASCOYNE) (8, 1943 - 1946)
31. "CAPTAIN" 1st group frigates (BAYNTUN) (32, 1943)
32. "CAPTAIN" 2nd group frigates (AFFLECK) (46, 1943 - 1944)
33. "COLONY" frigates (ANGUILLA) (21, 1943 - 1944)
34. "RIVER" (later Canadian-built) frigates (CHEBOGUE) (44(20), 1944)
35. "LOCH" frigates (LOCH KILLIN) (28(56), 1944 - 1946)
36. "Modified RIVER" (Australian-built) frigates (CULGOA) (4(10), 1945 - 1947)
37. "BAY" frigates (LARGO BAY) (22(5), 1945 - 1949)
38. BLACKWOOD frigates (12, 1955 - 1958)
39. WHITBY frigates (6, 1956 - 1958)
40. LEOPARD frigates (4, 1957 - 1959)
41. SALISBURY frigates (4, 1957 - 1960)
42. ROTHESAY frigates (9(3), 1960 - 1961)
43. "TRIBAL" frigates (ASHANTI) (7, 1961 - 1964)
44. LEANDER frigates (16, 1963 - 1967)
45. "Broad Beam LEANDER" frigates (HERMIONE) (10, 1968 - 1973)
47. AMAZON frigates (1974 - 1978)
48. BROADSWORD frigates (1979 - 1982)
49. BOXER frigates (1984 - 1988)
50. CORNWALL frigates (1988 - 1990)
51! NORFOLK frigates (1990 - 2002)
2. corvettes and patrol vessels
1. "P-BOAT" type patrol craft (P11) (44, 1915 - 1918)
2. "PC-BOAT" type decoy patrol boats (PC42) (20, 1916 - 1918)
3. "KIL" patrol gunboats (KILDARY) (53(32), 1917 - 1918)
4. HYDERABAD submarine decoy vessel (1917)
5. KINGFISHER patrol vessels (6, 1935 - 1938)
6. SHEARWATER patrol vessels (3, 1939)
7. "FLOWER" corvettes (PRIMULA) (204(17), 1940 - 1942)
8. "Modified FLOWER" corvettes (HONESTY) (44(15), 1943 - 1944)
9. "KIL" patrol vessels (KILBIRNIE) (15, 1943)
10. "CASTLE" corvettes (HADLEIGH CASTLE) (38(58), 1943 - 1945)
11. ENDURANCE Antarctic patrol ship (1956/1968)
12. JURA fishery protection vessels (1973-1975/1975)
13. "ISLAND" offshore patrol vessels (JERSEY) (1976 - 1979)
14. "CASTLE" offshore patrol vessels (LEEDS CASTLE) (1981 - 1982)
15. Falkland Islands patrol vessels (PROTECTOR) (1975/1982-1983)
16. Falkland Islands patrol vessel (SENTINEL) (1975/1984)
17. POLAR CIRCLE Antarctic patrol ship (1990/1991)
18! TYNE offshore patrol vessels (2003-2004)
19! CLYDE offshore patrol vessel (2007)
20! PROTECTOR Antarctic patrol ship (2001/2011)
21! FORTH offshore patrol vessels (2018-)
3. patrol and ASW craft
1. "Z WHALER" patrol craft (ZEDWHALE) (15, 1915)
2. PEACOCK patrol vessels (1983 - 1985)
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