Word: convoying
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Pioneer Trails. All normal children and those adults in whose mouths the taste of story book Indian blood is still strong will doubtless approve of Pioneer Trails. A masterly massacre is accomplished, in which a convoy of prairie schooners with their entire personnel, is wiped out. One small child escapes, to reappear 20 years later as the hero. Thereafter, the plot is simply a stencil, cut with the old familiar tools...
Steamers arriving at IChang on the Yang-tsze Kiang River declare that the American steamer Alice Dollar and a British vessel under convoy of the U. S. gunboat Monocacy were fired upon at Chung-King. The Monocacy returned the fire, not without effect...
...tons, measuring only 110 feet in length, and manned by officers and crew very few of whom had ever made an ocean voyage, could have crossed more than three thousand miles of wintry sea, even with the help of the efficient naval officers and men who, after training them, convoyed and guided them across, and could have done such excellent work in hunting submarines. We built nearly four hundred of these little vessels in 18 months, and we sent 170 to such widely scattered places as Plymouth, Queenstown, Brest, Gibraltar, and Corfu. Several enemy submarines now lie at the bottom...
...English and French navles. That month was a critical one for the Allies. The Germans were sinking 900,000 tons of shipping a month, and at that rate England would be starved into surrender within the next four or five months. Largely through the work of Admiral Sims, the convoy system, which had been used to protect battleships from the U-Boats, was applied successfully to merchant ships where up to this time it had been generally believed in naval circles that it would be a failure...