With our thanks to Novice
An item referred tot the magazine Revista Marittime dated July 1939 reporting that the British Royal Navy was enlarging the number of available escort vessels by converting already existing ships and building 24-900 ton fast escort vessels. Converted to be the C-class cruisers Coventry, Curfew, Cairo, Calcutta, Capetown, Carlisle, Columbo and Curacao into anti aircraft cruisers and for this task to be fitted out with 10-10,1cm/3.97” anti aircraft guns and a large number of smaller anti aircraft guns. For escort purposes came available the 12-1.000 tons sloops of the Bridgewater, Shoreham and Falmouth class, each armed with 2-10,1cm/3.97” anti aircraft guns, 2-1.000 tons Aberdeen-class sloops, each armed with 4-10,1cm/3.97” anti aircraft guns, 2-Bittern-class sloops, each armed with 6-10,1cm/3.97” anti aircraft guns, 5-1.200 Egret-class sloops, each armed with 8-10,1cm/3.97” anti aircraft guns and 4 aged V en W-class destroyers, each armed with 4-10,1cm/3.97” anti aircraft guns.
