 Various accounts of Hubbard 's service in the North Atlantic have been put forward by the Church of Scientology and Hubbard himself . The Church of Scientology states in one publication that Hubbard " took command of an antisubmarine escort vessel with Atlantic convoys " . In a 1954 lecture , Hubbard asserted that he had been sent " to Boston in the very early part of the war to take command of a corvette " and had been given a crew made up of convicts from Portsmouth Naval Prison . Hubbard stated in another lecture that he had been posted aboard " corvettes , North Atlantic . And I went on fighting submarines in the North Atlantic and doing other things and so on . And I finally got a set of orders for the ship . By that time I had the squadron . " Biographical accounts published by the Church of Scientology have described Hubbard as commanding the " Fourth British Corvette Squadron " and Hubbard himself stated that he " was running British corvettes during the war " . A biographical interview with Hubbard published in 1956 speaks of him commanding " the former British corvette , the Mist " . ( The only British naval vessel named Mist was an Admiralty drifter , one of a number of small wooden vessels constructed for the Royal Navy in 1918 . ) Hubbard also asserted that he had sustained wounds " aboard a corvette in the North Atlantic " . A biographical profile published in 2008 by the Scientology @-@ related imprint Galaxy Press asserts that Hubbard " served with distinction in four theaters and was highly decorated for commanding corvettes in the North Pacific . He was also grievously wounded in combat [ and ] lost many a close friend and colleague ... " 
