Scandinavian convoy as seen from Airship
From the Great War published in 1919 photographer uncredited. Info from wiki: The Royal Navy was the major user and developer of the modern convoy system,[a] and regular transoceanic convoying began in June 1917. They made heavy use of aircraft for escorts, especially in coastal waters, As historian Paul E. Fontenoy put it, "the convoy system defeated the German submarine campaign. Between May 1917 and the end of the war on 11 November 1918, only 154 of 16,539 vessels convoyed across the Atlantic had been sunk, of which 16 were lost through the natural perils of sea travel and a further 36 because they were stragglers.
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