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Originally Posted by Sniper297

According to Nicholas Monsarrat (The Cruel Sea) the Royal Navy was so unprepared for U-boats they sent out assorted tug boats and fishing trawlers armed with a few WWI Lewis guns and half a dozen depth charges at the beginning of the war.

Not only at the beginning. I'm reading Blair's History of the U-boat campaign, and some of those trawlers were 'loaned' to the USN to help stop the carnage on the East coast during '42. Later, when they weren't needed there, they were sent to the South Atlantic, around South Africa, because the defenses there were still weak in '43.

There is never enough new equipment to go around.