The Convoy System: Offensive or Defensive.

The Convoy System: Offensive or Defensive. Paper by Commanders D.W. Waters and F. Barley, Historical Section, Admiralty, 1954. Parts of the text have been lost due to the document having been cut to a smaller size. It also appears to be an incomplete copy, as the text stops mid-sentence on the 11th page.

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ID:	WTS/30/5
Type:	Manuscript
Display location:	Not on display
Creator:	Waters, David Watkin
Date made:	1954
Credit:	National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London
Measurements:	1 volume
Parts:	Notes, drafts of academic papers, speeches and articles, written or co-written by Waters in the 1950s. (Manuscript) Historical Survey of U-Boat and A/S Inshore Campaigns 1918 and 1945. (Manuscript) (WTS/30/1) Surface and air anti-submarine escort of shipping in convoy, and anti-submarine transit area patrols in two World Wars. (Manuscript) (WTS/30/2) Convoy as a Mine Countermeasure in Two World Wars. (Manuscript) (WTS/30/3) Review of "Richmond, the late Admiral Sir Herbert" (edited by K.A. Hughes), in The Navy as an Instrument of Policy, 1558-1727. (Manuscript) (WTS/30/4) The Convoy System: Offensive or Defensive. (Manuscript) (WTS/30/5) A New Look at Offence and Defence: The Anti-U-Boat Campaign 1939-1945 - A brief statement of facts. (Manuscript) (WTS/30/6) Convoy: The Core of Maritime Strategy. (Manuscript) (WTS/30/7) Merchant Shipping and its Protection in War, and Organisation and Control of Sea Transport in War Time. (Manuscript) (WTS/30/8) Notes on the Convoy System of Naval Warfare, Thirteenth to Twentieth Centuries. Part 1: Convoy in the Sail Era, 1204-1874. (Manuscript) (WTS/30/9) Reviews of D.W. Water's book "The Art of Navigation in England in Elizabethan and Early Stuart Times". (Manuscript) (WTS/30/10) The Heel of Achilles. (Manuscript) (WTS/30/11) The Heel of Achilles, with edits and notes. (Manuscript) (WTS/30/12) The Defeat of Japan, article and notes. (Manuscript) (WTS/30/13) Second World War: The Campaign against Merchant Shipping, General notes and Statistics. (Manuscript) (WTS/30/14) Historical Survey of Shipping Protection in the Twentieth Century. (Manuscript) (WTS/30/15) Study material for students of Anti-Submarine Warfare. (Manuscript) (WTS/30/16) U-Boat Aces. (Manuscript) (WTS/30/17) Some Principles and Operational Laws of Anti-Submarine Warfare. (Manuscript) (WTS/30/18) Diagrams illustrating relationship between convoy size and escort numbers. (Manuscript) (WTS/30/19)

The Convoy System: Offensive or Defensive.

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