BRITISH CONVOYS AT SEA: How They Proceed in Open Waters and the Change of Tactics Necessitated by Narrows
... BRITISH CONVOYS AT SEA How They Proceed in Open Waters and the Change of Tactics Necessitated by Narrows When far out at sea, the principal danger to a Convoy is from U-boats. For this reason the ships of the escort are usually arranged in the manner illustrated in the upper drawing. Ahead go the destroyers, and on the flanks are more destroyers or corvettes: preceding the merchantmen, also, ...