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Ships sailing in convoy presented a much smaller target: a convoy was as hard to find as a single ship. Even if the privateer found a convoy and the wind was favourable for an attack, it could still hope to capture only a handful of ships before the rest managed to escape, and a small escort of warships could easily thwart it.
Convoy, a character from the Vigilante 8 video games; LDV Convoy, a cargo/passenger van manufactured by LDV; Lock convoy, a performance problem that can occur when using locks for concurrency control in a multithreaded application; Convoy (company), a Seattle-based trucking startup; Convoy, an indie video game
Based on experience during World War I, the Admiralty instituted trade convoys in United Kingdom coastal waters from September 1939. [1] During the first year of the Battle of the Atlantic British convoy protection was the responsibility of the Western Approaches Command (WAC), based first in Plymouth, then, as the focus of the campaign moved after the 1940 Fall of France, in Liverpool. [2]
AAW An acronym for anti-aircraft warfare. aback (of a sail) Filled by the wind on the opposite side to the one normally used to move the vessel forward.On a square-rigged ship, any of the square sails can be braced round to be aback, the purpose of which may be to reduce speed (such as when a ship-of-the-line is keeping station with others), to heave to, or to assist moving the ship's head ...
An escort vehicle in California. An escort vehicle, also called a pilot vehicle in most areas, is an automobile used to alert other road users of an upcoming trucks with large loads, convoys of large vehicles or to guide motorists through construction sites.
Camel train, a convoy using camels as pack animals; Convoy, a group of vehicles or ships traveling together for mutual support; Caravan Tours, an escorted tour company; Vardo (Romani wagon), or caravan, a horse-drawn wagon used by British Romanichal Travellers as their home.
A convey of trucks, trailers and automobiles making its way across the country has plans for a stopover in Cambridge.
The first regular convoy from the south Atlantic commenced on 31 July. Fast convoys embarked from Sierra Leone—a British protectorate—while slow ones left from Dakar in French West Africa. [1] Gibraltar convoys became regular starting on 26 July. [1] Losses in convoy dropped to ten percent of those suffered by independent ships. [6]