Convoy size

[bstanko6]

I'm looking over the Internet, u-boat.net, and such. I am looking to find out how big was a regular, medium, and large convoy for plotting purposes.

[Mittelwaechter]

Google: WWII Convoy System

[iambecomelife]

Also go to warsailors.com....that website has ship names and you can often determine ship type (cargo, tanker, and so on).

IIRC, most average Atlantic convoys would have had from 20-45 ships. The largest ones (late in the war) would have had up to 120 ships, give or take. These huge convoys would probably have been divided into sub-sections separated by a few miles, so you would not have seen 120 ships sailing together.

[bstanko6]

Thank you for the reply. I applogize. I mean how big in meters!!!

I have always used manual targeting and plotting. I want to visualize the convoy on my map instead of chasing a line. So if the convoy was say just to make it easy 1km wide, I want to put a compass mark on the map to represent it.

[ivanov.ruslan]

For example https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Convoy_HX_300

[bstanko6]

Measurement?

[ivanov.ruslan]

More than one hundred ships sailed in each of 7 ON convoys (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ON_convoys) and 9 HX convoys during the summer of 1944. HX 300 was the largest of these with 166 merchant ships arranged in 19 parallel columns to produce a formation approximately 9 miles (14 km) wide and 4 miles (6.4 km) long.[3] (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Convoy_HX_300#cite_note-p.26n543-3)

Is not that ?

[bstanko6]

Oh god! Sorry, I'm in the USA and I saw the metric measurement and scanned over it! Thanks!

[blackswan40]

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link below

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[bstanko6]

Thanks