When the blockade was relaxed, the squadrons were able to break out into the Atlantic without resistance, following their orders to avoid combat with significant British forces and to cruise British trade routes in search of lightly protected merchant convoys.
Now we learn that it's about protecting merchants and PayPal.
"Visa rules protect merchants in these situations," a Visa spokesman, Ted Carr, said in an e-mail.
Further, it contradicts the point of the program, which a publicist said was all about protecting merchants.
Perhaps the biggest issue with EMV is that, as secure as it is, it still cannot protect merchants or their customers from all possible threats.
Brownlee felt that these threats were disingenuous, noting that similar measures already existed to protect merchants.
We are told that payments to merchants are staggered to help protect merchants, but not that that is the approach merchants would prefer, or how merchants are better off.
For protecting merchant convoys from submarine attack, escort carriers were built in large numbers, mainly in the United States.
As the submarine became the principal torpedo-launching vessel, destroyers were equipped with hydrophones and depth charges to protect merchant-ship convoys and battle fleets against submarine attack.
Twenty to 30 naval vessels monitor the waters, protecting merchant vessels and have sometimes coming to the aid of fishing boats and yachts.
They were the first British armoured cruisers designed to work with the battlefleet rather than protect merchant shipping.
