page_title: Escort Group
section_title: 12th Escort Group
hierarchical_section_title: Escort Group / Organization / 12th Escort Group
caption_attribution_description: English: British destroyer HMS Badsworth under tow on the Mersey. She served as HNoMS Arendal with the Royal Norwegian Navy from 1944 to 1961.
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: Hunt-class destroyers: HMS Badsworth, Blankney, Croome, Exmoor & Lamerton
caption: Hunt-class destroyers were assigned to the homogeneous 12th Escort Group.
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