Article in the Advertiser, Tuesday,22, June 1943. U-Boats Sunk in Atlantic.
From the tail end of the article.
The Biter is one of the Navy's new weapons, an escort aircraft carrier. Many of these vessels have been, and are being built, or converted, from fast merchant ships and tankers. They are known to the Navy as Woolworth carriers, being considerable smaller than fleet aircraft carriers. The tactical object of escort carriers is then explained.
I think the Navy nickname, Woolworth carriers, comes from the cheap discount department store aspect. According to Wikipedia. Woolworth was a British high street retail chain and originally a division of the American F.W Woolworth company. The 400th branch, at Southport, Lancashire, opened on 12th July 1930.
The full article mentions, Destroyer Broadway, Frigate Lagan, Canadian Corvette Drumheller, Destroyer Hesperus and Destroyer Pathfinder. The full article describes the battle which took place during May. Which ranged over a hundred miles and extended intermittently throughout five days and five nights.
Philip L
APA citation
U-BOATS SUNK IN ATLANTIC (1943, June 22). The Advertiser (Adelaide, SA : 1931 - 1954), p. 1. Retrieved January 16, 2025, from
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article48757504
Author
Topic: Woolworth Carriers such as Biter in 1943. (Read 79 times)