Sentence examples for escort force from inspiring English sources

While the RAN acknowledged that the Bathurst-class corvettes that made up most of its escort force were too slow, it argued that the losses suffered by escorted convoys were no worse than those in other parts of the world.

The two divisions embarked on large transport ships protected by an unusually strong escort force.

The NEF was reorganized in February 1942 as the Mid-Ocean Escort Force (MOEF).

A strong escort force was provided the guard the convoy as it travelled through the eastern Indian Ocean.

She received a brief refit in Liverpool and was transferred to the Newfoundland Escort Force on 7 July.

Later that month, Convoy PQ 13 was constituted and Duke of York again formed part of the escort force.

The Cruel Sea, by Nicholas Monsarrat (Burford, $18.95), is a 1951 novel about combat in the North Atlantic between British escort forces and Nazi U-boats.

The U-boats, meanwhile, were drawn off to the Mediterranean and the Arctic in support of Germany's new war with Russia while those attacking convoys on the Sierra Leone route suffered a tactical defeat by increasingly better-equipped British escort forces.

Her repairs were not completed until 22 May and she was transferred to St. John's, Newfoundland in June to reinforce escort forces in the Western Atlantic.

Decoy was transferred to the Eastern Fleet in March and was escorting Force B when the Japanese carriers attacked Ceylon.

On 26 May, he was shot down while leading an attack on a heavily escorted force of Luftwaffe bombers near El Adem.