Warships traveled with merchant ships for protection
Warships traveled with merchant ships for protection
Warships traveled with Merchant ships for protection.
Warships traveled with merchant ships for protection
Warships traveled with Merchant ships for protection.
Uncivilized
Cowardly.
Warships traveled with Merchant ships for protection.
Germany practiced unrestricted submarine warfare.
During World War I, the convoy tactic employed by the Triple Alliance (particularly, Great Britain) in the second half of the war was vitally important to their final victory. Until convoying was put into practice, the German submarine campaign was starving Great Britain into surrender; afterwards, the ocean campaign was virtually won, and final victory was rendered possible.
"Guerre de Course"; Commerce Raiding.
Guerre de Course (Merchant Warfare).
Principally the Imperial German Navy and the Royal Navy - both enormous forces at the time. Submarines and anti-submarine warfare were still in their infancy in WW1, but it was a German submarine that torpedoed the liner Lusitania off the coast of Ireland.