Word: convoying
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Strategically, it freed six or seven British cruisers from the Mediterranean theatre for convoy work on the high Atlantic, perhaps even for Air Chief Marshal Sir Robert Brooke-Popham's new commend in the Far East...
...which soared ceaselessly like gulls of vengeance far up the shores of Greenland and Iceland, high over the crinkled fjords of farthest Norway. They hunted a killer-the German surface raider, probably the pocket battleship Admiral Scheer or Lützow, which last fortnight fell upon a big British convoy in Lat. 52°N., Long. 32°W., halfway between Newfoundland and Eire (TIME...
...convoy of 38 ships was strung out in line on a calm sea. The sun was just setting, gloriously. The raider appeared from the north. At about eight miles' distance (14,000 yd.) it started hurling 11-inch shells, the first of which fell just short of the 16,698-ton Rangitiki, largest member of the convoy and first to signal the alarm...
...Jervis Bay closed in, laying a smoke screen as she went, behind which the rest of the convoy scattered into the gathering dusk...
Three of the men on the rafts died of their wounds. Their comrades buried them in the sea. After five hours a ship throbbed near through the night. They signaled it with torches. It was a Swedish freighter, one of the convoy coming back. "They did so well for us," explained Sven Olander, "I did not want to leave them there...