Wolfpack savages Convoy

18th October 1940: Devastating, unsustainable losses to a convoy approaching Ireland as U-Boats attack on the surface in the dark

The view from a Royal Navy destroyer on Convoy Escort duty.

The longest-lasting campaign of the war, the U-boat war, was still gathering pace. Although the Royal Navy had quickly instituted the convoy system, based on its experiences in the First World War, they were facing a determined enemy. The threat to Britain’s capacity to continue the war was pote…