0 present participle of convoy --
1 to travel with a vehicle or group of people to make certain that they arrive safely: --
During the squadron's deployment from 1801 to 1802, it operated by convoying merchant ships.
The main countermeasure was convoying, large groups of merchant vessels, from 20 to 100, protected by naval ships.
This involved devising methods for countering the tactics of submarines with improved convoying techniques, optimizing depth charge patterns, and so on.
It can also be used for the purpose of convoying an army intended for the purpose of invasion or of protecting this country against such a convoy.
Cruisers convoying ships cannot concentrate to make a mass attack, whereas the attacking units can do so and can wipe out the convoy units one by one.
They do a considerable amount of this work, sometimes in less dangerous circumstances than dealing with nuclear materials, such as the convoying of heavy goods wagons.
Reference has already been made to the question of convoying and protecting food-ships.
The answer lies on convoying and in sufficient escort vessels, sufficient hunting craft and aircraft, and in the closest possible co-operation between the ships and carrier-borne and land-based aircraft.
