British drifters sailing from their base in the Adriatic to the Otranto Barrage
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. Drifters were robust boats built, like trawlers, to work in most weather conditions, but designed to deploy and retrieve drift nets. They were generally smaller and slower than trawlers. If requisitioned by navies, they were typically armed with an anti-submarine gun and depth charges and used to maintain and patrol anti-submarine nets.
A navaldrifter is a boat built along the lines of a commercial fishing drifter but fitted out for naval purposes. The use of navaldrifters is paralleled...
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armed trawler Tuman – Soviet naval trawler sunk in the Kildin Island engagement [August 4, 1941] Navaldrifter Royal Naval Patrol Service "Anti-Submarine...
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expenditures in light of the increasing cost of keeping up with German naval production and in part because he felt the type to be outdated, Fisher authorized...
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warship designed to remove or detonate naval mines. Using various mechanisms intended to counter the threat posed by naval mines, minesweepers keep waterways...
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two hydraulic transmissions, two propeller shafts. (Lighterage Division, Naval Support Activity Danang 1969-1970) crew of 3: coxswain, bowhook, and engineer...
cruiser turned out to be an unsuccessful design. The rapid development of naval aircraft in the 1930s quickly rendered the vessels obsolete, and they were...
J. J. (1989). Ships of the Royal Navy, Volume 2: Navy-Built Trawlers, Drifters, Tugs and Requisitioned Ships From the Fifteenth Century to the Present...
windward was useful for privateers, blockade runners, slave ships, smaller naval craft and opium clippers. Packet boats (built for the fast conveyance of...
is the difference between Frigate and Destroyer? - Naval Post- Naval News and Information". Naval Post. 7 March 2021. Retrieved 3 August 2022. "Frigate...
they suffered heavy casualties and losses. One such casualty was armed navaldrifter HMT Frons Olivae, which hit a mine off Ramsgate on 12 October 1915 in...
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Maryland: United States Naval Institute. ISBN 1-55750-260-9. Gorshkov, Sergei Georgievich (1979). The Sea Power of the State (2nd ed.). Naval Institute Press...
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while carrying powerful weapons. Previously, increasing the potency of naval artillery required larger projectiles, which required larger and heavier...
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