Word: convoying
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...maelstrom. Men who wanted with all their minds to give all aid to England wanted also with all their hearts to feed Europe-which would break England's blockade. Men who wanted to stay out of war with Germany also wanted to send the U. S. Navy to convoy shipments of war materials to England...
...British Admiralty remained ominously silent last week about what Germany described as one of the war's fiercest submarine attacks. Hunting in a pack, guided to a big convoy by air reconnaissance, the U-boats were said to have hit and sunk 16, perhaps 18 ships west of Ireland, including a merchant cruiser. With other losses from scattered attacks by bombers and U-boats, this furious assault, would shoot Britain's tonnage loss for the week far above 100,000 - if true...
...latter had air scouts out, too. They knew that the swift, massive Renown was racing up from the British convoy. They turned off toward Sardinia, and the British resumed their pursuit of the Italian cruisers. When the Renown came up, the Italian battleships were well away toward shore. In all the smoke and scurry, the Renown could not see the effect of her shells at extreme range...
...this action. The old destroyer Sturdy, now a minelayer, ran ashore in rough weather off Scotland and was lost. Destroyers are what Britain can least afford to lose. Lack of them is what makes possible the kind of news the British faced as a new week began: a convoy 400 miles west of Ireland attacked by U-boats with a half-dozen ships sunk or damaged, two other vessels closer to Ireland attacked by bombing planes...
Captain Olander landed his survivors at a Canadian port. Meantime, into British ports crept 24 of the original convoy of 38, including the Rangitiki and Cornish City, whose radio messages, followed by silence, had marked them as surely lost. Then eight more slowpokes showed up. At the last came the wallowing, battered tanker San Demetrio, whose crew had abandoned her once, then reboarded her, put out a blaze, brought her home. The total loss out of 38 was but four ships, of not much more than 30,000 tons...