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The Drydock - Episode 208 (Part 2)
🕑 Added 2022-07-30 14:01:03 +0000 UTC
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Eric Knapp
Let me guess. Victorian authors were paid by the number of words in the title.
ROBERT NABORNEY
Category 3 Extremely Fast Merchant Ships were code named "Monster" and were routed independently as no escort could keep up with them - if it didn't run of fuel, then, in rough weather, an escort that tried to keep would seriously damage herself. They also did not need an escort because no sub was fast enough to maneuver into firing position and the chance of being in position by chance was miniscule . So far as I know, no Monster was ever attacked, let alone damaged. BTW, one of my uncles went to war aboard a Monster, RMS Queen Mary (capacity of about 15,000 troops)
