HISTORY
WORLD WAR I AND THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTION
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suspended the transport of supplies by ship.
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began shipping supplies using zeppelins.
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organized the merchant ships into convoys.
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resorted to trench warfare.
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Detailed explanation-1: -As there were not enough warships to protect thousands of individual merchant ships, they were grouped into convoys with naval escorts, making them hard to find and difficult to attack. Merchant shipping was placed under Admiralty control on 26 August 1939, and the first convoy sailed on 2 September.
Detailed explanation-2: -The Allies had to change their naval strategy to overcome aggressive German tactics. On April 25, 1917, shortly after the United States officially joined the war, American Adm. W. S. Sims urged the British War Cabinet to adopt a convoy system-groups of ships moving together while being escorted by warships.
Detailed explanation-3: -The advantage of using convoys was that defenseless merchant vessels no longer need traverse the high seas alone and unprotected, but could travel in groups large enough to justify the allocation of scarce destroyers and other patrol vessels to escort them across the Atlantic.
Detailed explanation-4: -Early war German submarines had such light armament that they could be outgunned by even a lightly armed merchantman. Another British countermeasure was the creation of vessels known as Q-ships. These vessels were merchantmen equipped with concealed guns that would attack any enemy submarine that approached them.