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62 relations: Air Ministry, Algeciras, Allies of World War II, Anti-submarine warfare, Battle of the Atlantic, Bay of Biscay, Befehlshaber der U-Boote, Bordeaux, Brittany, CAM ship, Cape Finisterre, Cape St. Vincent, Consolidated B-24 Liberator, Consolidated PBY Catalina, Convoy, Convoy commodore, Convoy OG 69, Corvette, Degree symbol, Depth charge, Destroyer, Emergency locator beacon, Engelbert Endrass, Enigma machine, Escort carrier, Fairey Swordfish, Flare, Fleet Air Arm, Focke-Wulf Fw 200 Condor, Frederic John Walker, Freetown, G and H-class destroyer, Gibraltar, Gross register tonnage, Kampfgeschwader 40, Karl Dönitz, Kriegsmarine, Lockheed Hudson, Lorient, Madeira, Nazi Germany, No. 120 Squadron RAF, Office of Public Sector Information, RAF Coastal Command, RAF Gibraltar, RAF Nutts Corner, Short Sunderland, Sierra Leone, Sloop-of-war, Sonar, ... Expand index (12 more) »
Air Ministry
The Air Ministry was a department of the Government of the United Kingdom with the responsibility of managing the affairs of the Royal Air Force, that existed from 1918 to 1964.
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Algeciras
Algeciras is a municipality of Spain belonging to the province of Cádiz, Andalusia.
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Allies of World War II
The Allies, formally referred to as the United Nations from 1942, were an international military coalition formed during World War II (1939–1945) to oppose the Axis powers.
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Anti-submarine warfare
Anti-submarine warfare (ASW, or in the older form A/S) is a branch of underwater warfare that uses surface warships, aircraft, submarines, or other platforms, to find, track, and deter, damage, or destroy enemy submarines.
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Battle of the Atlantic
The Battle of the Atlantic, the longest continuous military campaign in World War II, ran from 1939 to the defeat of Nazi Germany in 1945, covering a major part of the naval history of World War II. Convoy HG 76 and Battle of the Atlantic are north Atlantic convoys of World War II.
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Bay of Biscay
The Bay of Biscay is a gulf of the northeast Atlantic Ocean located south of the Celtic Sea.
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Befehlshaber der U-Boote
The Befehlshaber der Unterseeboote or BdU (Eng: "Commander of the U-boats") was the supreme commander of the German Navy's U-boat Arm (Ubootwaffe) during the First and Second World Wars.
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Bordeaux
Bordeaux (Gascon Bordèu; Bordele) is a city on the river Garonne in the Gironde department, southwestern France.
Brittany
Brittany (Bretagne,; Breizh,; Gallo: Bertaèyn or Bertègn) is a peninsula, historical country and cultural area in the north-west of modern France, covering the western part of what was known as Armorica during the period of Roman occupation.
CAM ship
CAM ships were World War II–era British merchant ships used in convoys as an emergency stop-gap until sufficient escort carriers became available. Convoy HG 76 and CAM ship are north Atlantic convoys of World War II.
Cape Finisterre
Cape Finisterre (also; italic; italic) is a rock-bound peninsula on the west coast of Galicia, Spain.
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Cape St. Vincent
Cape St.
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Consolidated B-24 Liberator
The Consolidated B-24 Liberator is an American heavy bomber, designed by Consolidated Aircraft of San Diego, California.
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Consolidated PBY Catalina
The Consolidated Model 28, more commonly known as the PBY Catalina (US Navy designation), is a flying boat and amphibious aircraft designed by Consolidated Aircraft in the 1930s and 1940s.
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Convoy
A convoy is a group of vehicles, typically motor vehicles or ships, traveling together for mutual support and protection.
Convoy commodore
Convoy commodore also known as commodore, convoys was the title of a civilian put in charge of the good order of the merchant ships in the British convoys used during World War II.
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Convoy OG 69
Convoy OG 69 was a trade convoy of merchant ships during the second World War. Convoy HG 76 and convoy OG 69 are naval battles of World War II involving the United Kingdom and north Atlantic convoys of World War II.
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Corvette
A corvette is a small warship.
Degree symbol
The degree symbol or degree sign,, is a glyph or symbol that is used, among other things, to represent degrees of arc (e.g. in geographic coordinate systems), hours (in the medical field), degrees of temperature or alcohol proof.
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Depth charge
A depth charge is an anti-submarine warfare (ASW) weapon designed to destroy submarines by detonating in the water near the target and subjecting it to a destructive hydraulic shock.
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Destroyer
In naval terminology, a destroyer is a fast, maneuverable, long-endurance warship intended to escort larger vessels in a fleet, convoy, or carrier battle group and defend them against a wide range of general threats.
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Emergency locator beacon
An emergency locator beacon is a radio beacon, a portable battery powered radio transmitter, used to locate airplanes, vessels, and persons in distress and in need of immediate rescue.
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Engelbert Endrass
Engelbert Endrass (Engelbert Endraß) (2 March 1911 – 21 December 1941) was a German U-boat commander in World War II.
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Enigma machine
The Enigma machine is a cipher device developed and used in the early- to mid-20th century to protect commercial, diplomatic, and military communication.
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Escort carrier
The escort carrier or escort aircraft carrier (U.S. hull classification symbol CVE), also called a "jeep carrier" or "baby flattop" in the United States Navy (USN) or "Woolworth Carrier" by the Royal Navy, was a small and slower type of aircraft carrier used by the Royal Navy, the Royal Canadian Navy, the United States Navy, the Imperial Japanese Navy and Imperial Japanese Army Air Force in World War II.
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Fairey Swordfish
The Fairey Swordfish is a biplane torpedo bomber, designed by the Fairey Aviation Company.
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Flare
A flare, also sometimes called a fusée, fusee, or bengala, bengalo in several European countries, is a type of pyrotechnic that produces a bright light or intense heat without an explosion.
Fleet Air Arm
The Fleet Air Arm (FAA) is the naval aviation component of the United Kingdom's Royal Navy (RN).
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Focke-Wulf Fw 200 Condor
The Focke-Wulf Fw 200 Condor, also known as Kurier (German for courier) to the Allies, is a German all-metal four-engined monoplane originally developed by Focke-Wulf as a long-range airliner.
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Frederic John Walker
Captain Frederic John Walker, (3 June 1896 – 9 July 1944) (his first name is given as Frederick in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography and some London Gazette entries) was a British Royal Navy officer noted for his exploits during the Second World War.
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Freetown
Freetown is the capital and largest city of Sierra Leone.
G and H-class destroyer
The G- and H-class destroyers were a group of 18 destroyers built for the Royal Navy during the 1930s. Convoy HG 76 and g and H-class destroyer are north Atlantic convoys of World War II.
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Gibraltar
Gibraltar is a British Overseas Territory and city located at the southern tip of the Iberian Peninsula, on the Bay of Gibraltar, near the exit of the Mediterranean Sea into the Atlantic Ocean (Strait of Gibraltar).
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Gross register tonnage
Gross register tonnage (GRT, grt, g.r.t., gt), or gross registered tonnage, is a ship's total internal volume expressed in "register tons", each of which is equal to.
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Kampfgeschwader 40
Kampfgeschwader 40 (KG 40) was a Luftwaffe medium and heavy bomber wing of World War II, and the primary maritime patrol unit of any size within the World War II Luftwaffe.
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Karl Dönitz
Karl Dönitz (sometimes spelled Doenitz;; 16 September 189124 December 1980) was a German admiral who briefly succeeded Adolf Hitler as head of state in May 1945, holding the position until the dissolution of the Flensburg Government following Germany's unconditional surrender to the Allies days later.
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Kriegsmarine
The Kriegsmarine was the navy of Nazi Germany from 1935 to 1945.
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Lockheed Hudson
The Lockheed Hudson is a light bomber and coastal reconnaissance aircraft built by the American Lockheed Aircraft Corporation.
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Lorient
Lorient is a town (commune) and seaport in the Morbihan department of Brittany in western France.
Madeira
Madeira, officially the Autonomous Region of Madeira (Região Autónoma da Madeira), is one of two autonomous regions of Portugal, the other being the Azores.
Nazi Germany
Nazi Germany, officially known as the German Reich and later the Greater German Reich, was the German state between 1933 and 1945, when Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party controlled the country, transforming it into a totalitarian dictatorship.
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No. 120 Squadron RAF
Number 120 Squadron or No.
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Office of Public Sector Information
The Office of Public Sector Information (OPSI) is the body responsible for the operation of His Majesty's Stationery Office (HMSO) and of other public information services of the United Kingdom.
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RAF Coastal Command
RAF Coastal Command was a formation within the Royal Air Force (RAF).
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RAF Gibraltar
Royal Air Force Gibraltar or more simply RAF Gibraltar (also formerly known as North Front) is a Royal Air Force station on Gibraltar.
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RAF Nutts Corner
Royal Air Force Nutts Corner, or more simply RAF Nutts Corner, is a former Royal Air Force (RAF) station located east of Crumlin, County Antrim, Northern Ireland and north west of Belfast.
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Short Sunderland
The Short S.25 Sunderland is a British flying boat patrol bomber, developed and constructed by Short Brothers for the Royal Air Force (RAF).
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Sierra Leone
Sierra Leone, (also,; Salone) officially the Republic of Sierra Leone, is a country on the southwest coast of West Africa.
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Sloop-of-war
During the 18th and 19th centuries, a sloop-of-war was a warship of the British Royal Navy with a single gun deck that carried up to 18 guns.
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Sonar
Sonar (sound navigation and ranging or sonic navigation and ranging) is a technique that uses sound propagation (usually underwater, as in submarine navigation) to navigate, measure distances (ranging), communicate with or detect objects on or under the surface of the water, such as other vessels.
Southwest Approaches
The Southwest Approaches is the name given to the offshore waters to the southwest of Great Britain and Ireland.
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SS Empire Darwin
Empire Darwin was a British CAM ship built in 1941 by William Gray & Co. Ltd., West Hartlepool, United Kingdom for the Ministry of War Transport (MoWT).
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Type IX submarine
The Type IX U-boat was designed by Nazi Germany's Kriegsmarine in 1935 and 1936 as a large ocean-going submarine for sustained operations far from the home support facilities.
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Type VII submarine
Type VII U-boats were the most common type of German World War II U-boat.
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U-boat
U-boats were naval submarines operated by Germany, particularly in the First and Second World Wars.
United Kingdom
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom (UK) or Britain, is a country in Northwestern Europe, off the coast of the continental mainland.
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V and W-class destroyer
The V and W class was an amalgam of six similar classes of destroyer built for the Royal Navy under the 9th, 10th, 13th and 14th of fourteen War Emergency Programmes during the First World War and generally treated as one class. Convoy HG 76 and v and W-class destroyer are north Atlantic convoys of World War II.
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Vigo
Vigo is a city and municipality in the province of Pontevedra, within the autonomous community of Galicia, Spain.
Wolfpack (naval tactic)
The wolfpack was a convoy attack tactic employed in the Second World War.
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World War II
World War II or the Second World War (1 September 1939 – 2 September 1945) was a global conflict between two alliances: the Allies and the Axis powers.
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36th Escort Group (Royal Navy)
36th Escort Group was a British formation of the Royal Navy which saw action during the Second World War, principally in the Battle of the Atlantic.
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802 Naval Air Squadron
802 Naval Air Squadron (802 NAS) was a Naval Air Squadron of the Royal Navy's Fleet Air Arm.
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References
Also known as Convoy HG-76, Convoy HG.76, Convoy HG76.