Word: convoying
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...only way to cut sinkings is by port-to-port convoy-a thing which is impossible for coastal shipping at a time when the U.S. Navy is busy convoying to Australia, to Iceland, to the Middle East. But the U.S. Navy has begun to develop a substitute which may prove to be a lifeline-saver: convoy by blimp...
Fortnight ago Rear Admiral John Wills Greenslade, commissioning Moffett Field in California as a base for blimp patrols on the West Coast, said: "To date on both coasts no convoy has been successfully attacked while under lighter-than-air convoy." He might have said more...
...blimps now in convoy service comprise what the Navy calls the K Class. They are of 416,000 cu. ft., are powered with two airplane engines, can hover motionless in the air or make 55 m.p.h...
...Army and Navy opened an official doghouse for war correspondents and put inside it the London Daily Mail's Washington Correspondent Walter Farr, now in Hawaii. His sin: the "great convoy" story, datelined "At Sea," which purported to be an eyewitness account of an A.E.F. pouring across the Pacific-a story which, the Navy said, had been filed on land, at Honolulu, and contained "no positive facts." The damage that the apparently unfounded story might have done was due to the fact that at that time a big convoy was indeed bound for Australia...
...began to land men along the coast, probably about 12,000. From one of the coves a U.S. Navy PT boat whirled out, roaring like an infuriated bull, slashed into the convoy, sent a torpedo fairly into the side of a Jap second-class cruiser. She was sinking when the PT whirled away...