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The CD-class naval drifters were armed naval drifters constructed in 1917 for the Royal Navy in Canada. 100 were ordered for use in British waters during World War I numbered from CD 1 to CD 100, of which 42 were transferred to the Royal Canadian Navy and 18 were transferred to the United States Navy.
A naval drifter is a boat built along the lines of a commercial fishing drifter but fitted out for naval purposes. The use of naval drifters is paralleled by the use of naval trawlers . Fishing trawlers were designed to tow heavy trawls, so they were easily adapted to tow minesweepers, with the crew and layout already suited to the task.
Integrity - drifter 86/07, hired for service between 1915 and 1919. [1] Integrity (II) - drifter 67/03, hired for service between 1916 and 1919. [2] Naval drifters were boats either purpose-built for naval use or commercial fishing drifters requisitioned from private owners. The Royal Navy primarily used them to maintain and patrol anti ...
Norway had a large fishing and whaling fleet industry. For the Second World War the Royal Norwegian Navy used six converted whalers and 22 other fishing vessels as minesweepers, and a further ten as patrol craft. [9] The Royal Norwegian Navy also used a German naval trawler captured in April 1940 and put into service as HNoMS Honningsvåg.
The Lydia Eva is the last surviving steam drifter of the herring fishing fleet based in Great Yarmouth. A drifter is a type of fishing boat. They were designed to catch herring in a long drift net. Herring fishing using drifters has a long history in the Netherlands and in many British fishing ports, particularly in East Scottish ports.
Resolute (1907) was a fishing drifter, hired by the Admiralty between 1915 and 1919; Resolute (1942) was a tug built in the United States under Lend-Lease and returned in 1943 to serve as USS Evea. She was sold to the French Navy as Malabar and sank in 1967.
Steam drifter: For Admiralty, completed as a commercial fishing vessel. [62] Unknown date United Kingdom: J. W. Brooke & Co. Ltd. Lowestoft: Moonset: Naval drifter: For Royal Navy but completed as a commercial fishing drifter. [63] Unknown date United Kingdom: Vickers-Armstrongs Ltd. Barrow-in-Furness: Narrangassett: Tanker: For Anglo-American ...
River King (North America) or Harvest Fishing (PAL) (known in Japan as Kawa no Nushi Tsuri (川のぬし釣り, lit. "Fishing Master of the River")), [1] and originally released in English as Legend of the River King, is a fishing-themed role playing video game series by Marvelous. The series has releases over 6 video game systems.