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"Ted Finch" <mariners-l@efinch90.fsnet.co.uk> on 02/01/2010

A few comments on the war loss rate for tramp / cargo steamers.

The convoy system was not instituted until 1917 in World War I after Germany
 instituted a system on unrestricted submarine warfare, sinking ships 
without
 warning.. In WW11  most ships sailed in convoy from the beginning. The main
 exception being fast passenger ships which were mostly used for trooping 
and
 often sailed with just a naval escort. They were fast enough to outrun a
 U-Boat.  Tramp steamers were slow and became easy pickings for U-Boats.

 The loss rate among British merchant seamen was the highest of any 
service -
 approximately one in three seamen were lost in WWII, often dying of 
exposure
 after days or weeks in appalling conditions in open lifeboats

 Lest we forget

 Ted

>
>> Two more cargo Fleets.  I've noticed that all the tramp / cargo fleets 
>> I've
>> done recently all lost a tremendous number of vessels during WWI and
>> WWII  ... I guess colliers &c. didn't travel in convoys like the
>> transatlantic ships did.
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