View Full Version : Why is a Netherlands ship in this Brit convoy? 1939?
Flamingboat
01-26-08, 09:58 PM
I attacked a convoy October 1939 and there were mostly Netherlands ships in it with a few Brit ships and 3 Brit escorts. I thought the Netherlands was neutral now?
Hanomag
01-26-08, 10:16 PM
Herr kaluen,
Its not unusual to have nuetral vessels sailing amongst the allies, specially early in the war. :yep:
Watch where you send those eels.....
Torplexed
01-26-08, 10:19 PM
Later on you'll find plenty of neutral American ships tucked in those juicy convoys. Mustn't bite! :p
Flamingboat
01-26-08, 10:32 PM
Watch where you send those eels.....
Too late..... :arrgh!:
Einzelganger
01-27-08, 05:35 AM
At the start of the war i came across a DD from the Netherlands in Loch Ewe. Now being from the country myself it usually results in me having to sink it, but not this time.
After they are no longer neutral i've found Dutch ships to be few & far between so i'm quite curious to know where you found this convoy and is this in GWX 1.03 / 2 ?
bigboywooly
01-27-08, 07:56 AM
Neutrals often sailed in convoy for protection
example Norway convoy Jan 40
Note not one merchant ship from a country at war BUT still escorted by British warships
Convoy HM.9 A of 19 Norwegian, nine Swedish, four Finnish, four Estonian and one Latvian ships departed Bergen escorted by destroyers INGLEFIELD, ISIS, IMOGEN, KASHMIR and submarine SEAL. Light cruisers GLASGOW and EDINBURGH departed Scapa Flow on the 26th to cover the convoy. Twelve ships in the convoy detached for ports on the west coast escorted by destroyers INGLEFIELD and MOHAWK before the remaining ships and escorts arrived at Methil on the 31st. ISIS entered Falmouth for docking after this escort duty.
Flamingboat
01-27-08, 09:50 AM
i'm quite curious to know where you found this convoy and is this in GWX 1.03 / 2 ?
GWX 2.0 October 1939 WNW of Ireland a few hundered kilometers from shore.
Ach, Dutch & American sneaky, unfair, unsporty. neutrality violators, Greeks, too.:roll:
Flamingboat
01-27-08, 06:13 PM
Ach, Dutch & American sneaky, unfair, unsporty. neutrality violators, Greeks, too.:roll:
That's what I was thinking. What else were they doing comming back from the west in the Atlantic? I'll have to get word to the Fuhrer they are not to be trusted.
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