page_title: Escort Group
section_title: 3rd Escort Group
hierarchical_section_title: Escort Group / Organization / 3rd Escort Group
caption_attribution_description: British destroyer HMS AMAZON underway at sea. Pennant No D39
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: Thornycroft prototype destroyer: HMS Amazon
  Yarrow prototype destroyer: HMS Ambuscade
  B-class destroyer: HMS Bulldog
  Town-class destroyers: HMS Belmont & Georgetown
  Flower-class corvettes: HMS Aconite, HMS Aubrietia, Heartsease, Renoncule, & Roselys
caption: HMS Amazon was a unique prototype.
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