The Fighting Commodores: Convoy Commanders in the Second World WarAs Britain came terrifyingly close to running out of supplies during the Second World War, a group of retired senior naval officers returned to the sea in the role of convoy commanders, and thereby turned the tide. |
Contents
Sir Kenelm Creighton | |
The Coastal Convoys | |
The Attack on Convoy | |
The Merchant Seamans Lot 8 The Liberty Ships | |
The Bait Convoy SL125 | |
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Admiral Admiralty ahead aircraft Allied American Arctic convoys arrived asdic ashore astern Atlantic convoys attack B-Dienst battle battleship Bletchley Park boats bombed bridge Britain British Canadian Captain cargo carried channels Chediac coastal convoys column command Commodore’s ship convoy commodores convoy signalmen convoy’s corvettes course cruiser damaged December deck destroyers Dönitz east coast engine escorting warships Fidelity fire flag Fleet four fuel German Gibraltar guns HF/DF Hull journey knots Liberty Ships lifeboats manoeuvre masters merchant service merchant ships miles minesweepers night North Atlantic Norwegian Ocean Commodore ocean convoys officers and crews operating ordered patrol picked port rafts rear reported River Afton routes Royal Naval Reserve Royal Navy Russian sailed Sea Lord seamen ship’s sighted sinking speed St Laurent starboard station sunk surface survived survivors tankers Tirpitz tons took torpedoed trawlers U-boats weather Yeoman of Signals