• Thumbnail for HMS Wild Goose (U45)
    HMS Wild Goose, pennant number U45, was a Black Swan-class sloop of the Royal Navy. She was one of several ships of that class that took part in the famous...
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  • created in 1867 by Fenian prisoners HMS Wild Goose (U45), a 1942 Royal Navy Black Swan-class sloop USS Wild Goose (SP-562), a US Navy patrol vessel in...
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  • Thumbnail for HMS Magpie (U82)
    (Starling, Wild Goose and Magpie) were ordered to attack the submarine, with U-842 being sunk by depth charges from Starling and Wild Goose. From 20 December...
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    Kite and Wild Goose. On 30 July 1943 U-462 was sunk in the Bay of Biscay by a Handley-Page Halifax aircraft and Wren, Kite, Woodpecker, Wild Goose and Woodcock...
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    U-boats wherever found. The other ships of the group were Cygnet, Kite, Wild Goose, Woodpecker, and Wren. Starling's first patrol in May 1943 was uneventful;...
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    Kite and Wild Goose on 24 June 1943. U-462 was sunk in the Bay of Biscay by a Handley-Page Halifax and Wren, Kite, Woodpecker, Wild Goose and Woodcock...
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    survivors from a burning Vessel" in April 1941 while serving on HMS Broke. On 2 October 1942, it was announced that he had again been mentioned in despatches...
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    a course at the newly founded anti-submarine warfare training school of HMS Osprey, on the Isle of Portland, which was established in 1924. Walker consequently...
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  • Thumbnail for HMS Woodpecker (U08)
    supporting convoy SL 147/MKS 38, 2SG destroyed three U-boats; Woodpecker and Wild Goose were credited with the destruction of U-762. Three days later Woodpecker...
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    Starliner space capsule HMS Calypso for the Royal Navy ships of the same name. SP-350 Denise first diving saucer Wild Goose, a private yacht belonging...
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