There's a line from a documentary I watched recently that stuck in my head. It went along the lines of -
"It was a tonnage war - the aim of the KM and specifically the U-Boat fleet was to sink tonnage at a faster rate than Britain could replace it, either through building or buying."
ASW ships don't normally tip the scales as high as a merchant, therefore to stick with the "big picture" merchant shipping should always be the primary focus - in my opinion.
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