Prostitutes were supposedly hired from a local escort service, while another company provided strippers "on several occasions".
After the completion of her refit, the ship escorted local convoys in and around Halifax until 15 January 1941 when she was transferred to Greenock and assigned to the 10th Escort Group of the Mid-Ocean Escort Force that was based there.
I joined the local escort message board clique.
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).
Upon their completion, Boadicea was transferred to Freetown, Sierra Leone where she served as a local escort.
Hesperus was transferred to the Mid-Ocean Escort Force in late 1941 and continued to escort convoys in the North Atlantic for the next three years.
She was briefly assigned to Force H in 1941, but her anti-aircraft armament was deemed too weak and she was transferred to the Newfoundland Escort Force the next month for escort duties in the North Atlantic.
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.
