ESCORTED CONVOYS
Answer To U-Boat Menace
(British Official Wireless.! RUGBY, August 23.
The disclosure by the United States Navy Department that only live ships have been sunk out of 2000 which have been escorted in convoys along the American Atlantic coast since May 14 is noted with the greatest interest in London. In this war, out of more than 100.000 Allied ships escorted up to last February, fewer than one-half per cent., have been lost. By June, 1941. t b<- Germans had claimed that about 13.000.000 tons of shipping had been sunk. The true figure was 7.145.0(H) tons. Since then the Admiralty has not published the losses. . The rate of merchant, shipbuilding in this war is much greater than in the last war. The output of the British Empire in 19-11 is reliably estimated at about 2.500.000 tons. American launchings during the year are now expected to exceed considerably 5.000.0f)0_ tons gross. In July America launched 71 ships. By the end of the year the figure will exceed 00 a month, and in 1913 the United States estimates to build some 9.000.000 tons, or 15,000,000 tons deadweight.
Uy specim arrangement li'-iiter - wore l service, in addition to other special sources information. Is used in the compilation of the overseas intelligence published in t.hs issue, and all rights therein in Australia and New Zealand are reserved.
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Dominion, Volume 35, Issue 280, 25 August 1942, Page 5
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225ESCORTED CONVOYS Dominion, Volume 35, Issue 280, 25 August 1942, Page 5
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