Word: convoying
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...only is the vast majority shown which favors our entrance if necessary to defeat the Axis, but there has been a large shift on the convoy question. From the Crimson's figure of 27 per cent quoted last Monday, it had changed by the middle of the week poll until "41 per cent said they now favored the use of United States naval convoys." (Times). Over a 50 per cent increase in so short a time is highly indicative that the United States is rapidly coming to believe that the time when it must enter the war to make sure...
...last war the British were free to use the Mediterranean as a supply route. The entrance of Italy into this war signalized the stoppage of the Mediterranean short cut. The British have only tried to put one large convoy through since last June, and that was the one in which the light cruiser Southampton was sunk and the aircraft carrier Illustrious was given a dreadful pasting by Axis dive-bombers. The effect of this was not only to put an added strain on British merchant shipping by requiring it to use the longer Cape route, but to force Britain...
...chart-spread table in the Merchant Ship Plotting Room of the grey old Admiralty off London's Trafalgar Square, a number of officers and clerks bustle every morning, plucking out and sticking in little colored pins. Each pin represents a ship; its color designates whether it is in convoy or independent, whether inbound or outbound...
When the men in the Plotting Room have spotted the exact location of every ship at sea-some 600 independents and hundreds more in convoy-the charts are taken to another room where convoy experts fight a paper skirmish, determining the best routes for each ship to pursue in the light of information on where U-boats, enemy raiders and planes are operating. By the afternoon the plotted charts and recommended courses are forwarded to the naval staff for study. Then directions are teletyped to the secret headquarters, in a west-coast port, of the man whom Britons consider...
...Percy and his aides then send wireless orders to the ships at sea. In the case of convoys, they signal the naval escort, which consists in most cases of two destroyers, with here and there a corvette thrown in, trying to protect 20 to 60 vessels in the convoy...