I regulary attack convoys from within
I am on silent running as I close in and have had the escorts pass as close as 70m behind me
Nerve wracking that was
Once inside the convoy lanes usually target 2 ships fore and one aft
Using fast torps on a ship some distance from me and then slower speeds on the next and stern ships - both closer to me
Hoping the torps get there close together
Go deep as soon as you fire and head for the back of the convoy
Silent and deep usually means I get away untouched
Convoys in GWX are set to 1000mtrs - 1 KM - apart
Dont think they were that much further apart in RL
Convoy Blue 1 — Port Said to Gibraltar
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H.M.T. Dilwara sailed with Convoy Blue 1 from Port Said on the 9th September 1939. It was the first Westbound convoy from Port Said. Once clear, the twenty ships of the convoy formed up in five columns of four rows. The columns were 3 cables apart, with 2 cables between ships in each row, a cable = 200yds
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/ww2peopleswar/s...a4080610.shtml
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Though in relation to the areas of ocean the space occupied by a convoy was miniscule, it did not appear so to the observer. Normally a convoy was formed in a rectangular shape, with a much wider frontage than depth. Ships most commonly occupied nine to eleven parallel columns, each averaging five ships. Both weather conditions and the need to avoid collisions could affect the formation. The distance diagonally across a convoy of 45 ships might be 8000 yards
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http://www.militaryhistoryonline.com...ic/convoy.aspx
United States Fleet - Anti-Submarine and escort of convoy intructions
In the pic above has 600 yard = 548 metres spacing in a column and 500yards between coloumns
http://www.ibiblio.org/hyperwar/USN/...oy-4.html#4200