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.
Warships traveled with Merchant ships for protection.
They had difficulty in combating merchant convoys to and from their overseas allied nations, as German submarines were a huge threat. Their main tactic was the use of depth-charges, which even if they did not hit the submarine directly, created an overpressure effect which could rupture a sub's hull. They also relied heavily upon heavily-armed naval escorts which had the capacity to fire ship-borne torpedoes, as well as upon their own submarines to track and hunt down German and Japanese ones.
Cowardly.
Uncivilized
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.