The exciting story of how the convoys system helped to preserve the safety of sea communication during the Great War, and assisted in the final defeat of the enemy's intensive submarine campaign, will be told to Daventry listeners today written and arranged by 'Taffrail' Captain Taprell Darling, n..0, RN:—the programme will show that from 1914 to 1918 the Allies had to keep open 85,- 000 miles of sea communications, a task that meant the organization of convoys on a most elaborate scale.
The convoy system was used not only to ensure the transportation of munitions and raw materials, but to protect troop movements. Cruisers and warships guarded the passage of troops from England to France, from India to the Far East, and from Australia, New Zealand, and the Far East to Europe.
As most listeners will know, con-Voy is a system whereby, in times of war, merchantmen are sailed in groups escorted by warships, Not so generally known, perhaps, is that the system dates back to the Middle Ages, and that until the seventeenth century it bore the curious name of wafting.'
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