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- 36hrs Live Historiophon 2025: P6 of 9 - The Royal Navy’s Submarine Killers – Black Swans at War8:18:00How the Bittern hull led to different escort rolesNotable Point
- 36hrs Live Historiophon 2025: P6 of 9 - The Royal Navy’s Submarine Killers – Black Swans at War8:19:48The crack ASW group behind convoy escortsChapter
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- 36hrs Live Historiophon 2025: P6 of 9 - The Royal Navy’s Submarine Killers – Black Swans at War8:56:06How aircraft and hunter-killer groups shared U-boat killsQ&A
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- Bruships 212: Naval History Questions Answered Live...29:59Why a Black Swan escort cost less than a Tribal destroyerNotable Point
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- The Hunt Class: The WWII Royal Navy's Escort Destroyers - Key Ship Series 6, Ship 31:15:50The wider question: escorts ordered a year earlierNotable Point
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- Black Swan Class: The F-22 of WWII ASW? - Key Ships Series 6, Episode 22:01Why sloops could expand shipyard capacityNotable Point
- Black Swan Class: The F-22 of WWII ASW? - Key Ships Series 6, Episode 25:13Black Swans and the Royal Indian NavyChapter
- Black Swan Class: The F-22 of WWII ASW? - Key Ships Series 6, Episode 28:16From Bittern and Egret to the Black SwanNotable Point
- Black Swan Class: The F-22 of WWII ASW? - Key Ships Series 6, Episode 28:55HMS Black Swan survives repeated wartime damageChapter
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- Black Swan Class: The F-22 of WWII ASW? - Key Ships Series 6, Episode 219:55Why a Black Swan was a sloop, not a frigateNotable Point
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- Bittern Class: The Foundation Stone of the British WWII ASW efforts - Key Ship Series 5, Episode 1018:57Shikari showed where Johnny Walker's skills layChapter
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- Bruships 90: Books From the Road3:03:31The Hunt class was Britain's overlooked mass-produced light destroyerNotable Point
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- Battle of the Atlantic (Redo): Comment Response18:00Black Swan sloops and the escort-carrier answerQ&A
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- Sloops of the Interwar a Long Patrol9:11Naval standards versus wartime escort productionNotable Point
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- An Introduction to Ships of the Convoy War - the Battle of Atlantic in Steel Part 3 Frigates7:32River frigates as an evolution of the wartime sloopNotable Point
- An Introduction to Ships of the Convoy War - the Battle of Atlantic in Steel Part 2 Sloops14:07The Black Swan lineage begins with BitternNotable Point
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- An Introduction to Ships of the Convoy War - the Battle of Atlantic in Steel Part 2 Sloops20:30HMS Starling turns sloop design into U-boat killsNotable Point
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- An introduction to the ‘Littleships’ of the big war Part 3 of 437:11Black Swan camouflage distorted size and directionNotable Point
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