Sentence examples for adopted convoy from inspiring English sources

The Royal Navy on the other hand, successfully adopted convoy tactics to combat Germany's submarine blockade and eventually defeated it.

The April total, however, proved to be a peak figure primarily because the Allies at last adopted the convoy system for the protection of merchant ships.

The convoy adopted a new formation with the MGB and two torpedo MLs in the lead, followed by Campbeltown.

The Ocean Convoy System adopted by Britain after the fall of France in June 1940 ran on two routes – an east west route between the UK and North America, and a north south route between the UK, Gibraltar and Freetown in British-ruled Sierra Leone.

A system of convoys was adopted in 1947, consisting of one northbound and two southbound per day.

During the next year his efforts to combat the new German submarine campaign were not effective until the convoy system was adopted at the insistence of the prime minister, David Lloyd George, who was responsible for Jellicoe's retirement from the Admiralty at the end of 1917.

Although the convoy system was not adopted in World War I until losses of British merchant ships became catastrophic in 1917, it then quickly proved effective.

Two major changes adopted by Coastal Command were sweeps over convoy routes and sweeps against U-boat transit routes.

When Germany adopted unrestricted submarine warfare in February 1917, shipping losses soon forced the diversion of destroyers from fleet duty to convoy protection and antisubmarine warfare.

This margin is expressed as a rate of the average minimum headway between convoys; for short periods of time (peak hour), common values of this rate vary between 0.3 and 0.4, while for longer periods (full day) usually values between 0.6 and 0.8 are adopted.

By the time McLeod's convoy made its way to Fluffy's home, we already had one cat and two dogs in kennels, for which the owners signed consent forms agreeing to surrender their pets (CAP then takes the pets to an animal rescue to be adopted into a new home).