The convoy system was developed as a defense against Nazi U-Boat attacks called 'Wolf Packs' .
The convoy system helped avoid U-boat attacks due to its sheer size, and the difficulty that U-boats had when positioning to attack a large number of ships.
cut merchant marine losses greatly
The convoy system ,
The convoy effect is the slow down of traffic due to queuing caused by slow processing having knock on effects slowing the whole system down. The convoy effect term has been resurrected as a modern computing term with traffic being replaced by instructions within a computing environment
A convoy is a group of vehicles (of any type, but usually motor vehicles or ships) traveling together for mutual support. Often, a convoy is organized with armed defensive support, though it may also be used in a non-military sense, for example when driving through remote areas.Source : Dictionary.com / wikipedia
Pensacola Convoy happened in 1941.
Convoy Faith happened in 1943-07.
The military vehicles traveled through town in a convoy system.
Take Ichi convoy happened in 1944-05.
Battle of the Cigno Convoy happened on 1943-04-16.
Battle of the Espero Convoy happened on 1940-06-28.
Hadassah medical convoy massacre happened on 1948-04-13.
Convoy de la victoria happened on 1936-08-05.
One, the convoy system allowed the British to limit their number of losses. Second, without the convoy system, the Allies lost one out of every 10 ships. With the convoy, the number of ships lost changed to 2 out of 100 ships.
The convoy system was used to prtect American ships carrying materials to Great Britain in 1940 and 1941. These merchant ships were protected by American Warships.
Some of the synonym for convoy systems are group, fleet, cavalcade, motorcade, cortège, caravan, line, train.
the attack on shipped goods