Comments by "Steve Valley" (@stevevalley7835) on "Western Approaches Command - Fighting U-Boats with Wrens" video.

Sweepers weren't totally ignored. The USS Caine was a minesweeper, specifically a DMS, in the book a converted 4 piper, in the movie they used two Gleaves class DDs that the Navy had also converted to sweepers. There is one sequence in both the book and movie where they practice deploying paravanes. I looked in a 1945 edition of Jane's and found a class of converted 4 piper DMSs, exactly as described in the book. Curiously, there was a 1 digit gap in the hull numbers listed in Jane's, with no corresponding entry in the war losses section. That missing number was the one Wouk used for the Caine.
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@irgendeinerirgendwo8420 another training ship forced into combat: USS Utah. Resources I see don't say if Utah put up a defense. She was torpedoed only about 6 minutes after the attack started.
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