cu convoys造句

• Fast CU convoys were organized to maintain petroleum fuel stockpiles in the British Isles.
• Approximately three or four CU convoys sailed from New York each month from December 1943 through May 1945.
• An alternative plan to operate tanker MACs with CU convoys between the United Kingdom and Cura鏰o was rejected because convoys on that route were too fast.
• In 1943, " Hughes " joined in regular UC and CU convoys of tankers from the Bristol Channel to the Netherlands West Indies.
• A total of 2255 ships crossed the Atlantic in CU convoys until convoy CU 73 made the last departure from New York on 30 May 1945.
• Modern tankers could travel faster than the HX convoys, and the CU convoys were continued as a very fast ( ) convoy series along the HX convoy route.
• United States destroyer escorts provided anti-submarine screens for CU convoys because the s of the British and Canadian Mid-Ocean Escort Force were not fast enough to maneuver with these convoys.
• CU convoys were established as an emergency measure to maintain petroleum fuel reserves in the United Kingdom for continued strategic bombing of Europe following heavy tanker losses along the east coast of North America during the Second Happy Time.