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RE: Convoy HX-156 and Tanker ACYLUS
Posted by: Rainer Bruns ()
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

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RE: Convoy HX-156 and Tanker ACYLUS C. Newport 03/08/2001 10:24PM
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RE: Convoy HX-156 and Tanker ACYLUS C. Newport 03/09/2001 01:09PM
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