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bigboywooly · 10-31-06, 04:45 PM

Ah Wulfmann

The Hunt was designated as an Escort Destroyer - not a destroyer escort

http://www.battleships-cruisers.co.uk/hunt_class.htm

Royal naval Hunt Class escort destroyers

http://uboat.net/allies/warships/typ...cort+destroyer

All Escort destroyers classes (in service with the Royal Navy) Hunt (Type I) (20) Hunt (Type II) (36) Hunt (Type III) (26) Hunt (Type IV) (2)

So they were never DE

If anything they should be an ED

A Destroyer Escort (DE) is classification for a small, comparatively slower warship designed to be used to escort convoys of merchant marine ships, primarily of the United States Navy in WWII. It is usually employed primarily for anti-submarine warfare, but also some protection against aircraft and smaller attack vessels in this application. The US built roughly 457 Destroyer escorts spread out over 8 classes. The Royal Navy's equivalent warship was known as the Frigate, although somewhat confusingly they referred to the Hunt class and similar ships as "escort destroyers".

10-31-06, 04:45 PM	#5
bigboywooly Rear Admiral Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Swindon, England Posts: 10,151 Downloads: 35 Uploads: 0	Ah Wulfmann The Hunt was designated as an Escort Destroyer - not a destroyer escort http://www.battleships-cruisers.co.uk/hunt_class.htm Royal naval Hunt Class escort destroyers http://uboat.net/allies/warships/typ...cort+destroyer All Escort destroyers classes (in service with the Royal Navy) Hunt (Type I) (20) Hunt (Type II) (36) Hunt (Type III) (26) Hunt (Type IV) (2) So they were never DE If anything they should be an ED A Destroyer Escort (DE) is classification for a small, comparatively slower warship designed to be used to escort convoys of merchant marine ships, primarily of the United States Navy in WWII. It is usually employed primarily for anti-submarine warfare, but also some protection against aircraft and smaller attack vessels in this application. The US built roughly 457 Destroyer escorts spread out over 8 classes. The Royal Navy's equivalent warship was known as the Frigate, although somewhat confusingly they referred to the Hunt class and similar ships as "escort destroyers". __________________ My mediafire page http://www.mediafire.com/?11eoq19bq9r41 Last edited by bigboywooly; 10-31-06 at 04:55 PM.