We appologise for the lack of new celebrations.
It is now 1940
January 7th 1940
A cordon of U-boats is set up running across from South America to Africa. This cordon sinks a few British and Dutch convoys sprinkled all through the period. The level of sinkings is sufficiently modest that I have not bother to collate them all as it does not seem necessary. My 7 spies (later on) in the Netherlands territory report that they have no land units to supply (can this be true?) so this suggests the Dutch convoy must be resources from Paramaribo to Batavia. This is probably irrelevant to them anyway but does result in a few convoys going down.
I cannot estimate the impact of this level of losses on the UK’s convoy stocks so there is probably little point in counting them. It becomes apparent after a while that there are large numbers of escorts available for these convoys and I get many occurrences of “convoy to heavily protected”
It is now 1940
January 7th 1940
A cordon of U-boats is set up running across from South America to Africa. This cordon sinks a few British and Dutch convoys sprinkled all through the period. The level of sinkings is sufficiently modest that I have not bother to collate them all as it does not seem necessary. My 7 spies (later on) in the Netherlands territory report that they have no land units to supply (can this be true?) so this suggests the Dutch convoy must be resources from Paramaribo to Batavia. This is probably irrelevant to them anyway but does result in a few convoys going down.
I cannot estimate the impact of this level of losses on the UK’s convoy stocks so there is probably little point in counting them. It becomes apparent after a while that there are large numbers of escorts available for these convoys and I get many occurrences of “convoy to heavily protected”