In the movie, three of the four convoy escorts were large modern fleet destroyers - the Fletcher class USS Keeling/Greyhound, the Battle-class-looking HMS James/Harry, and the Grom-class-looking Polish ORP Viktor/Eagle. While such a mix of escorts at times did happen, it was very rare - a sizable majority of escort warships for North Atlantic convoys were ships that were usually smaller and slower, and, depending on type, were called frigates, corvettes, destroyer escorts, sloops, armed trawlers, sub chasers, coast guard cutters, minesweepers, and World War 1-era destroyers. The HMCS Dodge/Dicky was an example of such a ship, a smaller, slower Flower-class corvette.These smaller ships were more dedicated for anti-submarine work, often having the same anti-sub armament as a full modern fleet destroyer. Fleet destroyers, however, with their higher speed, torpedo tubes, and more numerous and larger sized main guns, were more used to escort major warships and in other situation where they might see combat with enemy surface warships.

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Greyhound: il nemico invisibile (2020)

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