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  2. CD-class naval drifter - Wikipedia

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    Canada did not want the drifters as they could neither catch nor kill a submarine nor did Canada have the manpower to crew the ships. [48] Further difficulties arose when more training would be required as the drifter-type fishing vessel was not used in Canadian waters, and there was a lack of knowledge of the technology in Canada.

  3. Naval drifter - Wikipedia

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    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.

  4. Royal Naval Patrol Service - Wikipedia

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    The Royal Naval Patrol Service has its origins in the Great War when the threat of mine warfare was first realized by the British Admiralty.The pre-war Commander-in-Chief of the Home Fleet, Admiral Lord Charles Beresford, is credited with recommending the use of Grimsby trawlers for minesweeping operations following visits he made to various East Coast Ports in 1907.

  5. HMS Integrity - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  6. Battle of the Strait of Otranto (1917) - Wikipedia

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    The three Austro-Hungarian cruisers were able to pass through the line of drifters, and at 03:30 began attacking the small barrage ships. The Austro-Hungarians frequently gave the drifter crews warning to abandon ship before opening fire. [5] In some instances, the drifter crews chose to fight: Gowan Lee returned the Austro-Hungarian ships' fire.

  7. Naval trawler - Wikipedia

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    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.

  8. Drifter (fishing boat) - Wikipedia

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    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.

  9. List of ship launches in 1920 - Wikipedia

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    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 ...