Newfoundland Escort Force
The Oxford Companion to World War II
|
2001
|
|
© The Oxford Companion to World War II 2001, originally published by Oxford University Press 2001. (Hide copyright information)
Copyright
Newfoundland Escort Force, Canadian naval force which protected Allied
convoys during the
battle of the Atlantic. It was formed under
Commodore Murray in May 1941 when the British Admiralty requested the Royal Canadian Navy (RCN) to base warships at St John's, Newfoundland, to escort convoys from Newfoundland to a mid-ocean point south of Iceland. It initially comprised 7 Royal Navy (RN) and 6 RCN destroyers, 4 RN sloops, and 17 RCN and 4 RN corvettes, and by the end of that year 78% of the RCN's escort strength was gathered at St John's. It ceased to exist in February 1942 when all escorts became part of the new escort force, though the name was retained for local Newfoundland forces.
Cite this article
Pick a style below, and copy the text for your bibliography.
|
Joos van Cleef
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Joos van Cleef , c.1485-1540, Flemish portrait painter. Much of his life was spent...Johnson Coll., Philadelphia) are attributed to him. A Holy Family by Joos is in the National Gallery, London.
|
|
|
Joos van Cleve
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Joos van Cleve see Cleef, Joos van .
|
|
|
Flemish art and architecture
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...Jean Malouel, and Jan van Eyck. Claus Sluter executed...eacute;malle) and the Van Eycks, who mastered the...the second third by Roger van der Weyden, Dieric Bouts...Justus of Ghent, and Joos van Cleef produced paintings in a...
|
