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appendix 9.3 267 a. Convoys to and from British Waters Number of Convoys Ships Safely Arrived Numbers Tonnage Inward-bound convoys from Gibraltar: 10 May 1917 119 1,732: 5,516,483 Hampton Roads: 24 May 1917 78 1,596: 7,572,804 Sydney, Nova Scotia: 10 July 1917 63 1,432: 6,744,592 New York: 14 July 1917 89 1,619: 9,690,581 Sierra Leone: 11 August 1917 56 421: 2,928,020 Dakar: 22 August 1917 57 596: 2,507,040 Halifax: 5 September 1917 80 863: 9,241,785 Port Said: 16 November 1917 23 344: 2,105,896 Rio de Janeiro: 13 March 1918 22 305: 1,466,097 Bay of Biscay: 20 342: 1,768,015 Total number of convoys and arrivals: 607 9,250: 49,541,313 arrivals as % of sailings: 98.89 98.97 Outward-bound convoys from Milford Haven: 13 August 1917 113 2,652: 9,961,655 Devonport: 16 August 1917 136 1,715: 10,057,339 Falmouth: 18 August 1917 57 791: 2,846,043 Queenstown: 21 August 1917 29 209: 954,503 Buncrana/Lamlash: 85 954: 5,169,290 Channel: 10 93: 777,459 Liverpool special: 3 October 1917 8 22: 246,650 Liverpool: 39 319: 2,917,763 Liverpool-Buncrana: 12 103: 616,364 Liverpool fast: 13 127: 1,416,745 Gibraltar: 25 304: 1,868,601 Total 527 7,289: 36,832,412 99.32 99.13 Total number of convoys and arrivals: 1,134 16,539: 86,373,725 arrivals as % of sailings: 99.08 99.04 268 from sarajevo to constantinople Ships from Convoy Lost Total Losses while in Convoy to Natural Causes or Accidents while Not in Convoy 16: n.a. 2: n.a. 9: n.a. 27: n.a. 13: n.a. - - 5: n.a. 18: n.a. 4: n.a. 3: n.a. 7: n.a. 14: n.a. 7: n.a. 4: n.a. 5: n.a. 16: n.a. 2: n.a. 1: n.a. 1: n.a. 4: n.a. 3: n.a. - - 2: n.a. 5: n.a. 3: n.a. 1: n.a. 1: n.a. 5: n.a. 7: n.a. - - 1: n.a. 8: n.a. 2: n.a. - - - - 2: n.a. 4: n.a. 1: n.a. - - 5: n.a. 61: 305,643 12: 64,540 31: 145,633 104: 515,816 0.65 0.61 0.13 0.13 0.33 0.29 1.11 1.03 8: n.a. 2: n.a. 2: - 12: n.a. 6: n.a. - n.a. 3: - 9: n.a. 5: n.a. - - - - 5: n.a. - - - - - - - 8 : n.a. 1: n.a. - - 9: n.a. - - - - - - - 1 : n.a. - - - - 1: n.a. 7: n.a. - - - - 7: n.a. - - - - - - - 1 : n.a. - - - - 1: n.a. 5: n.a. 1: n.a. - - 6: n.a. 41: 279,640 4: 17,819 5: 26,419 50: 323,878 0.56 0.75 0.06 0.05 0.06 0.07 0.68 0.87 102: 585,283 16: 82,359 36: 172,052 154: 839,694 0.61 0.67 0.10 0.09 0.22 0.20 0.92 0.96 The dates given represent the first sailing of a convoy from the named port and not necessarily when a convoy system based on that port was introduced. For example, the first convoy from Gibraltar for British waters sailed on 10 May 1917, but the first convoy to sail under a four-day cycle did so on 26 July, while the corresponding dates regarding Hampton Roads were 24 May and 2 July. A certain care needs be exercised on this point: for example, the first regular convoy may have left Halifax on the date shown, but troopships from the port had sailed in company before that time. ...

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