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In British waters, drifters were a type of fishing vessel with hauled drift nets. This was adapted by the Royal Navy for anti-submarine defence in approaches to harbours and ports by laying drift nets and snagging enemy submarines. [1] In January 1917 the Royal Navy ordered 100 drifters from Canadian shipyards as part of a building programme in ...
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.
Vorpostenboot (plural Vorpostenboote), also referred to as VP-Boats, flakships or outpost boats, [1] were German patrol boats which served during both World Wars.They were used around coastal areas and in coastal operations, and were tasked with – among other things – coastal patrol, ship escort, and naval combat.
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.
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.
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 ...
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.
Inverlyon was a fishing smack of 59 tons burthen that was a part of the fishing fleet at Lowestoft on the Suffolk coast. [1] [3] The wooden boat had a flush deck, two masts, and no engine. [3] Inverlyon ' s sails were fore-and-aft rigged and may have been red ochre in colour, the traditional sail colour for British smacks. [3] [4]