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RE: Convoy HX-156 and Tanker ACYLUS
Posted by:
Rainer Bruns
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Date: March 08, 2001 06:25PM
Hi C.N.,
Perhaps this tanker skipper was wiser and more experienced than the convoy commodore. With a highly explosive cargo aboard, it just might have been self-preservation to drop astern of the convoy at nights.
Many collisions occurrred when steaming in tight formations without position lights. A collision with this cargo aboard would have the same results as a torp hit.
Also the wolfpacks used to tear into the convoys at night, thus trailing them astern is arguably safer than being in the middle.
Rgds, RB
Perhaps this tanker skipper was wiser and more experienced than the convoy commodore. With a highly explosive cargo aboard, it just might have been self-preservation to drop astern of the convoy at nights.
Many collisions occurrred when steaming in tight formations without position lights. A collision with this cargo aboard would have the same results as a torp hit.
Also the wolfpacks used to tear into the convoys at night, thus trailing them astern is arguably safer than being in the middle.
Rgds, RB
Subject | Written By | Posted |
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Convoy HX-156 and Tanker ACYLUS | C. Newport | 03/07/2001 02:21PM |
RE: Convoy HX-156 and Tanker ACYLUS | Derek | 03/08/2001 05:29PM |
RE: Convoy HX-156 and Tanker ACYLUS | C. Newport | 03/08/2001 06:09PM |
RE: Convoy HX-156 and Tanker ACYLUS | Rainer Bruns | 03/08/2001 06:25PM |
RE: Convoy HX-156 and Tanker ACYLUS | C. Newport | 03/08/2001 06:42PM |
RE: Convoy HX-156 and Tanker ACYLUS | Anders Wingren | 03/08/2001 07:46PM |
RE: Convoy HX-156 and Tanker ACYLUS | C. Newport | 03/08/2001 08:40PM |
RE: Convoy HX-156 and Tanker ACYLUS | Derek | 03/08/2001 09:33PM |
RE: Convoy HX-156 and Tanker ACYLUS | C. Newport | 03/08/2001 10:24PM |
RE: Convoy HX-156 and Tanker ACYLUS | Rainer Bruns | 03/08/2001 11:32PM |
RE: Convoy HX-156 and Tanker ACYLUS | C. Newport | 03/09/2001 01:09PM |
RE: Convoy HX-156 and Tanker ACYLUS | Rainer Bruns | 03/09/2001 01:46PM |