page_title: Escort Group
section_title: 37th Escort Group
hierarchical_section_title: Escort Group / Organization / 37th Escort Group
caption_attribution_description: English: Photograph of British sloop HMS Scarborough, stationary, in coastal waters.
context_page_description: An Escort Group consisted of several small warships organized and trained to operate together providing protection for trade convoys. Escort groups were a World War II tactical innovation in anti-submarine warfare by the Royal Navy to combat the threat of the Kriegsmarine's "wolfpack" tactics. Early escort groups often contained destroyers, sloops, naval trawlers and, later, corvettes of differing specifications lacking the ability to maneuver together as a flotilla of similar warships, but rigorously trained in anti-submarine tactics to use teamwork emphasizing the unique sensors, weapons, speed and turning radius of each ship. The development of these 'escort groups' proved an effective means of defending shipping convoys through the Battle of the Atlantic.
context_section_description: Black Swan-class sloop: HMS Black Swan
  Shoreham-class sloop: HMS Fowey
  Flower-class corvettes: HMS Bluebell, Campion, Carnation, Heliotrope, La Malouine, Mallow, Myosotis & Stonecrop
caption: Hastings-class sloops were designed and constructed between the world wars for use as convoy escorts.
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