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Originally Posted by tenakha
i didn't knew it is possible to find a battleship escorting a merchant convoy  |
Early war was quite common to see a BB or at least a cruiser in a convoy
Apart from uboats there was a real fear of German surface raiders
After the loss of the Bismark the rest of the heavy Ge units sat parked in port for the most part so the threat was less
Apart from the Murmansk convoys where there was the ever present threat of the Tirpitz or remaining pocket BB's\Cruisers breaking out of the Fjords
While they stopped adding BB's to the actual convoy there was usually a covering TF not far away
As the Scharnhorst found out to her cost