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Originally Posted by Raptor1
The River class we're the British/Australian... made Frigates, while the Captain class we're Lend-Lease Destroyer Escorts, Both we're designated Frigates but we're really DEs
The Hunts we're DEs too (Almost full-scale DDs tho, because of the speed), only DDEs (Escort Destroyers) by name...
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Actually no.
Corvette coined by churchill as the name for whaler type commercial escorts
Frigate coined by admiral sir percy nelles. and suggested to the admiralty
this name supplanted the term twin screw corvettes. and was later established as a worldwide naval term ie. a "Frigate Navy" previously
the term had fallen into complete disuse after the napoleanic wars.
Destroyer escort. (British) a practicle suffix designation to distinguish
the A's to H's that were stepped down from fleet duties to escort duties.
escort destroyer as per wulfmanns post is a designation for the Hunts alone. in this case designating a unit designed exclusively as an escort
but with as much capability as a fleet destroyer (theoretically)
finally the US term Destroyer Escort came after when admiral king
decided that the british term was unpallatable so adopted the term
Destroyer escort as it would denote a more powerful ship in a lesser
role by connotation. however this didnt happen first properly as fifty
years later did happen the DE's were finally classified as frigate.
the modern term frigate denotes a general purpose ship of naval spec
utilizing commercial construction and components therer chief virtue
being simplicity and affordability which is why so many third world navies
are "Frigate Navies"
@BBW Redesgnation of A to H class fleet destroyers with reduced surface
armament and increased asw armament.
(game designation unexplainable but understandable)
(I still tried to keep it short.)
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