Warfare
Convoy
A group of merchant ships sailing together under naval escort. The Admiralty resisted the system until the spring of 1917, when the losses to U-boats forced a change, and convoys cut shipping losses sharply.
Mentioned in
- Chapter II Thirty-Seven Days to War §2 Sarajevo, 28 June: The Bomb, the Wrong Turn, the Shots
- Chapter III The War of Movement §5 The First Battle of the Marne
- Chapter VI The Year of Revolutions Overview§1 Germany's Gamble: The U-boats and the Zimmermann Telegram§2 America Enters, and the World Follows
- Chapter VII The Last Gamble §10 The Eleventh Hour: Compiègne
- Chapter XI War on Waves and Wings Overview§3 Raiders and Hunters: Spee, Emden and Königsberg§4 The U-Boat War in Four Phases§5 Barrages and Raids: Dover, Otranto and Zeebrugge
- Chapter XII The Home Fronts §8 Civilians Under Fire
- Chapter XIII A World on Fire §8 The Economic World War