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Tango01

10 Apr 2016 4:05 p.m. PST

"At the end of the Second World War the Royal Navy had a major headache that it needed to solve. It had a large number of escort ships (frigates and corvettes) in reserve, most of which were either worn-out or did not have a speed advantage over the new, faster submarines that the Germans had been building and which – no doubt – the Soviets would copy. The Navy also had a large number of relatively new fleet destroyers in reserve which were not as well equipped as the frigates and corvettes when it came to anti-submarine warfare…"
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