| 41. | Originally designed as minesweepers, they were never used in that role, instead being used mostly as escort vessels.
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| 42. | Although financed by Finns, the ship ended up serving as an escort vessel to the Russian Imperial Yacht.
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| 43. | In fact only six merchant ships and three escort vessels, a destroyer, a frigate and a corvette were sunk.
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| 44. | She was damaged on 19 May 1945 by depth charges from Japanese escort vessels while attacking an escorted tanker.
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| 45. | Instead, he eventually returns to his three escort vessels and accompanies them back to Klettsvik Bay, where he lives.
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| 46. | The ship operated as an escort vessel in the West Indies through the end of the war in Europe.
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| 47. | The Navy provided support, shelling targets on land, while submarines, escort vessels and minesweepers patrolled the area off the coastline.
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| 48. | The aircraft flew reconnaissance and anti-submarine patrols from platforms on convoy escort vessels in the Baltic, Aegean and Mediterranean Seas.
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| 49. | The Japanese survivors were rescued by an escort vessel, leaving POWs in the water with rafts and some abandoned boats.
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| 50. | From October 1944 to May 1945, she served as plane guard and escort vessel during carrier exercises off the east coast.
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