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