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| Picture No | 10652332 |
| Date | 1939 |
| Description | British naval convoy system by G. H. Davis |
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The method of safeguarding the freedom of the seas: the British naval convoy system at work. Making the high seas safe for Allied and neutral shipping -- a convoy of merchantmen protected against submarines by destroyer screens, armed trawlers and minesweepers, and against surface raiders by a larger warship, while long-range flying boats scan the ocean from above.
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| Source | Illustration by George Horace Davis in ‘The Illustrated London News’, 18 November 1939, pp740-1 |
| Credit | © Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans |
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