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Originally Posted by DaveyJ576
I believe several R boats made Anti U-Boat patrols out of Bermuda, Key West and St Thomas. Dudley Morton in command of R5 attacked a U-boat on February 10, 1942. See Roscoe p 89-91
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Nuc,
You are absolutely correct. I was going a bit fast when I wrote that post. My intent was to show that none of the R-boats made any Pacific war patrols. The USN never took the Atlantic anti U-boat submarine patrols very seriously and relied on air and surface ship patrols to do the job. This is why the sub force mostly assigned the ancient R-boats and the obsolescent S-boats to this job. These boats could be spared. The Atlantic fleet boats spent much more time in training exercises than they did on patrol. While they did get a few upgrades, they never got the much more extensive upgrades that some of the S-boats in the Pacific theater received.