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Meantime, as rescue ships reached port, stories of U-boat successes outside the convoy lanes continued to swell the grisly sea record...
...Into Bordeaux steamed the U. S. Independence Hall with survivors of the City of Mandalay, which was torpedoed as she stood by to rescue survivors of the torpedoed Yorkshire after both ships got separated from their convoy. A U-boat had followed the Yorkshire all day. When the Independence Hall hove to for its double rescue, the U-boat surfaced and its commander, in excellent English, called "Thank you!" He had killed 67 persons in sinking the two ships...
...boats] have found the pace too hot for them and have retreated from much-used shipping channels and are now forced to operate out in the open sea where the 'catch' is bound to be a much smaller one." The British pointed with pride to their convoy system, revealed that a flotilla of 15 freighters had arrived safely from Canada bringing 500,000 bushels of wheat. Pointing with pride also to Britain's blockade of Germany, Winston Churchill gleefully declared that Britain had seized 150,000 more tons of contraband than she had lost by torpedoing...
...train seals to hunt submarines. Various more practical expedients were tested-mine barriers, nets,-"mystery ships" (disguised trawlers and other craft which pretended to flee from submarines, then suddenly unmasked guns when the pursuing U-boats came close). Most effective defense against submarines was found to be the convoy. But the British wanted to hunt down the subs and destroy them. The problem was that of a blind man groping for a frog in a fishpond. So the British decided to use ears instead of eyes -mechanical and electrical ears...
...vessels remained unchanged for both routes. The import rate on other neutral flag vessels was held at 3¾, but the export rate was upped from 3¾% to 5%. Reductions on British shipments, underwriters pointed out, reflected the belief of marine experts that the British convoy system had begun to function with more efficiency. But on shipments to and from Black Sea and Baltic Sea ports rates were quoted on application only...