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 * 2nd Support Group


 * B-7 Escort Group (Royal Navy)


 * 36th Escort Group (Royal Navy)


 * 5th Escort Group (Royal Navy)


 * B-2 Escort Group (Royal Navy)


 * B-6 Escort Group (Royal Navy)

Escort Group (naval)
Escort groups for convoy protection were a British development during the war at sea during WWII.

formation of the Royal Navy which saw action during the Second World War, principally in the Battle of the Atlantic.

Formation/background

History 1941

by 1942 there were 25 escort groups deployed by WAC (Roskill p91 comprising 70 destroyers, 18 sloops 67 corvettes and 10 cutters

These fell in to 4 main groups /types .A special escort groups, comprising short range destroyers employed in escorting WS and PQ convoys, and meting troopships from across the Atlantic.

>b long range destroyers and corvettes providing the bullk of the North atlantic escort force.

.C long range destroyers sloops and cutters employed on the South Atlantic route to Freetown OS/SL

.D the antiaircraft vesels which worked the British coastal routes and accompanied Arctic and Gibraltar convoys

A further 2 groups were based at Gibraltar, and a force of 36 warships ( a destroyer flotilla, 5 sloops and 24 corvettes) in South Atlantic Command at Freetown

In the Western Atlantic the 54 vessels (14 destryers and 40 corvettes of RCN formed the NEF, later WLEF

References
 * Blair
 * Kemp
 * Neistle
 * Rohwer
 * Roskill

Categories
[[Category:Military units and formations of the Royal Navy in World War II