Newfoundland Escort Force

The Oxford Companion to World War II | 2001 | 697 words | 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.

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