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  U-boat Archive - BDU KTB PG30300A
The whole convoy came in to sight at 1402 in BD 3933 on a southerly course.
Convoy No. 8: At 1238 U 552 made contact with escorts in AL 6261, at 1300 she picked up the convoy in AL 6236 and shadowed it with some interruptions until 0330 when she lost the convoy in AL 4212 and broke off pursuit.
Convoy not found (owing to breakdown of one engine it was not possible to catch up).
www.uboatarchive.net /BDUKTB30300A.htm   (1756 words)

  
 Ahoy - Mac's Web Log-The Battle For Convoy ONS 5. 26th.April - 6th. May 1943-   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-22)
Most of the Convoy were in ballast, all had sailed before in convoys and knew what was required of them in terms of station keeping, and what they might expect when the U-Boats attacked, as they always did on these journeys across the Atlantic, no matter whether one was East or West bound.
When the new day dawned, 32 ships of the convoy were together, and their escorts still trying to bring the stragglers back into the fold, gale force winds from the south west, still battering the struggling convoy vessels.
Convoy ON 180 trailing behind ONS 5 was somewhat to their north, and when mastheads were sighted on the afternoon of the 4th.
www.ahoy.tk-jk.net /macslog/TheBattleForConvoyONS5.26.html   (9184 words)

  
 U-boat Archive - BDU KTB PG30322
In order to exploit the chance thus provided all outward bound boats able to reach the convoy during the night or ready to attack during the day, were deployed.
Operations on this England bound convoy were not originally planned, so that it was not until the 17th that additional boats were detailed for this.
Actual convoy warfare did not begin then, until the morning of the 17th with, in all, 8 boats after U 262, which had first sighted the convoy, received instructions to withdraw to the W. and proceed on special duties.
www.uboatarchive.net /BDUKTB30322.htm   (1424 words)

  
 CollyLogic: Black Convoy rolls outta the garage
For those that don't know, Black Convoy is a UK based illustration and art collective formed to facilitate collaboration with artists and designers, and to stage collaborative events in numerous global cities.
Founded by Pixelsurgeon genius Richard May and the madly-talented McFaul, BC is gathering momentum in the States, Asia and the UK as huge sponsors and galleries start hitching a ride.
Convoyers can upload images, chat privately, collaborate on images and “book out” files, add and edit their own submissions, view all their forthcoming events and much more.
www.collylogic.com /?/comments/black_convoy   (1027 words)

  
 Convoy Codes - Convoy OS.33
Each convoy was known by two or more letters designating the route and a consecutive number added in chronological order.
ECP Portland and Solent Personnel convoys to Seine Bay June to Oct 1944.
EWM Isle of Wight to France MT convoys Sept and Oct 1944.
www.convoyweb.org.uk /os33/code.htm   (1419 words)

  
 Accident Reports.com - USAAF CHRONOLOGY JANUARY to MARCH 1943
Thirteenth AF HQ is established on Espiritu Santo, FC HQ on New Caledonia, and BC HQ on Espiritu Santo.
It broadly outlines the operations of the BCs of the US and Britain located in UK as having primary object of destruction of German military, economic, and industrial systems and undermining of morale of German people.
B-17's and B-24's attack convoy of 8 transports and 8 destroyers as it proceeds from Rabaul towards Huon Gulf.
www.accident-report.com /PUBS/chrono43a.html   (16928 words)

  
 Canadian Mining Results in Death of Indigenous Farmer
VANCOUVER, BC - On January 11, 2005, an Indigenous farmer was killed for opposing Canada-US mining operations in Guatemala and another was seriously injured.
The farmer was killed in a confrontation with 2000 military and security forces sent to protect a convoy of mining equipment owned by Glamis Gold Limited.
Chief Stewart Phillip, President of the Union of BC Indian Chiefs said today, "We demand that the Canadian government, through its embassy, in Guatemala repudiate the actions of the Guatemalan security forces and government in the harming and killing of citizens opposed to Glamis Gold Limited's Marlin Project.
www.ubcic.bc.ca /News_Releases/UBCICNews01180501.htm   (436 words)

  
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U-520 was operating against the 42-ship New York to Liverpool convoy SC-107 when she was attacked & sunk by a patrol a/c.
The battle for SC-107 is considered to be one of the greatest convoy engagements of the war.
U-658 was part of a patrol line scouting for an eastbound convoy when she was sunk.
www.seawaves.com /newsletters/TDIH/october/30Oct.txt   (1156 words)

  
 Fire retardant coatings, products, services. Convoy Distribution Ltd, Convoy Engineering - Vancouver, BC, Canada
Convoy Distribution Ltd. and Convoy Engineering have been supplying; flame retardant product sales, consulting and certified services for fire retardant coatings, treatments and control to a wide variety of customers in the Vancouver, BC area, since 1965.
Vancouver BC's busy film industry (Hollywood North) is a regular customer, as Convoy Distribution and Engineering supplies them with: Nomex® Underwear, fire retardant blankets (rated to 1000° F), protective Kevlar® blankets and more.
Convoy can provide consulting about all aspects of fire control and fire code requirements.
www.fireretardantcoatings.com   (228 words)

  
 BLACK CONVOY | NEWS
Representing the 'Convoy at the recent 'Secret Wars' event organised by top street art group Monorex at Juno in London were Adrian Johnson, Austin Cowdall, Lee Ford and Jon Burgerman.
A big thank-you to everybody who rolled up for the inaugural Black Convoy show at Seventeen, including all of you who arrived early enough to guzzle our own-brand BC beer at the crowded opening party.
Last month at the ICA (Institute of Contemporary Arts), Convoy founders May and McFaul outlined the BC concept to a full house for BD4D's 9th London event.
www.blackconvoy.com /?/news   (483 words)

  
 List of naval battles - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
480 BC Salamis - Athenian navy defeats the Persians
306 BC Salamis (in Cyprus) - Demetrius I Poliorcetes defeats the fleet of Menelaeus, brother of Ptolemy I of Egypt
256 BC Cape Ecnomus - Romans defeat Carthaginians
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/List_of_naval_battles   (8218 words)

  
 Accident Reports.com - USAAF CHRONOLOGY JULY to SEPTEMBER 1943
The present ratio of less than 1 ftr gp to 4 HB gps is held to be completely insufficient and a minimum ratio of 1 to 2 is suggested.
FC and BC, Solomons, are taken over by Gen Strother and Col William A Matheny, respectively; Strother retains his position as CG XIII FC.
XII BC B-17's, B-25's, and B-26's attack highways, road j unctions and defiles, bridges, town areas, railroads, M/Y, barracks, and numerous T/Os, including several gun positions, in or near Avellino, Pompeii, Torre Annunziata, Auletta, Baronissi, San Severino Rota, Battipaglia, and Eboli.
www.accident-report.com /PUBS/chrono43c.html   (18742 words)

  
 Construction equipment rolls past B.C. legislature in show of support for economy
Victoria, B.C. – In the midst of the largest construction boom in B.C.’s history, dozens of local contractors arrived at the B.C. Legislature today in a convoy of construction equipment to show their support for the economic policies of the provincial government.
The B.C. Construction Convoy was made up of over 50 dump trucks, cement trucks, flatbeds and other construction equipment that rolled past the B.C. Legislature as MLAs returned to Victoria to attend the Throne Speech.
The B.C. Construction Convoy was sponsored by the ICBA, the Canadian Home Builders’ Association (B.C.), the B.C. Road Builders and Heavy Construction Association and the Island Equipment Owners’ Association.
www.icba.bc.ca /hot/events/2005-02-08.htm   (437 words)

  
 Castanet.net - BC News
A B.C. man is among the injured in a suicide car bombing in Afghanistan.
William Salikin of Grand Forks was one of three Canadian soldiers wounded, as a convoy moving near the Canadian base in Kandahar was targeted.
Email us a news tip, photo, or video and your name will be in a draw for our weekly news tip prize $25.
www.castanet.net /edition/news-story-15384-3-.htm   (145 words)

  
 CBC News: Endangered owls ready to take flight in B.C.
Over the past two decades, the owls have lost 90 per cent of their habitat in southern B.C., mostly due to urban expansion and agriculture.
Every year, the B.C. Wildlife Centre in Kamloops breeds and releases burrowing owls, but most of them either die or migrate elsewhere.
They believe the birds will spend the summer in B.C. before migrating south in September as temperatures drop and food supplies dwindle.
www.cbc.ca /story/canada/national/2006/04/22/owl-release060422.html   (849 words)

  
 uboat.net - U-boat Operations - Convoy Battles
U-198 was on the maiden patrol as a Monsun boat and sank the Dutch steamer Mangkalibat on the August 1st, 1943.
The convoy was escorted by the corvettes Freesia and Rockrose and 3 armed trawlers.
The boat was under the command of Kapitän zur See Werner Hartmann during his massive 200 days at sea patrol, one of the longest patrols in the WW II.
uboat.net /ops/convoys/bc.htm   (94 words)

  
 VWvortex Forums: Northeast Fall Touareg Rally   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-22)
We will probably convoy up with group from NYC area (we are in North NJ) Depends upon time and work that week...
Joyce and I have been to many TT gtg's and convoys are a fun way to get there...
Last convoy I took to OTB, NC we used the 2 ways, it was much more fun and practical (not that practical is my goal:) then the Cells....
forums.vwvortex.com /zerothread?id=1371990&page=6   (1716 words)

  
 China: History In Detail   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-22)
second century BC Han control of peripheral regions was generally insecure, however.
The new empire retained much of the Qin administrative structure but retreated a bit from centralized rule by establishing vassal principalities in some areas for the sake of political convenience.
100 BC "When the Han envoy first visited the kingdom of Anxi (Parthia), the king of Anxi dispatched a party of 20,000 horsemen to meet them on the eastern border of the kingdom...
ariellegabriel.tripod.com /id515.html   (1793 words)

  
 Battles   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-22)
Result: Victory by the Elysian Navy, with the destruction of 1 BC, 1 CA, and 1 CL along with the capture of the rest of the convoy force.
Result: Destruction of Task Force 12.4.2 (8 Dreadnaughts, 12 BC, 4 BB, and 4 DD) and a large part of the Basilisk Orbital Infrastructire.
Destruction of a RMN picket force led by Admiral Silas Markham (8 SD and escorts) along with 4 SD from TF 12.4.1.
www.movie-trailers.com /weber/Honorpedia/History/Battles/battles.html   (1154 words)

  
 Toan Thang II Operational Report 5 Dec 68 through 6 Jan 69
At 1245H vic XT504255, convoy truck detonated an unknown type of mine, resulting in neg casualties; major damage to truck.
Co A moved to Hwy 7A fm 1 to vic XT498185; acted as convoy RRF along Hwy 1; swept fm Hwy 1 SE to vic XT558180.
ARVN Bn cdt RIF fm Trung Lap to vic XT5(missing)8186 and rtn to Bao Trai.
25thaviation.org /history/id812.htm   (22451 words)

  
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This use could have been an expedient to foil the attempts of the German Wolf Packs in DF'ing the convoys and should not yet be considered as normal practice until more evidence has been collected.
This body guard duty might include, and often did, throwing themselves in front of speeding torpedos to prevent them from hitting the more important, larger ships in the center of the task force.
One of the most interesting details is the use of the TBY radio as a sort of "interphone" for the convoy.
www.shlrc.mq.edu.au /~robinson/Information/TBY_use   (677 words)

  
 After Action Reports 22
B and C Co. swept road from DAU TIENG to TAY NINH, and escorted convoy; another convoy was escorted from TAY NINH to DAU TIENG.
One platoon of A Co conducted a sweep of Rt 4 and secured convoy to TAY NINH, and returned to BAU CO. Another platoon of A Co secured engineer effort vic XT 113513.
The daylong action cost the VC 43 KIA (BC) and gave a hint of the defensive tenacity that could be expected in future operations against similar units.
25thaviation.org /history/id750.htm   (8727 words)

  
 Northwest Nissans - Cdn Convoy to the WA pizza meet?
Kim dropped by Roma's tonight with her mom for dinner and mentioned you called her phone, but she was at work and should have called you back by now...
So far no one else has said they were, and forgive me if I'm mistaken, but I didn't see any cdn names on the list other than myself.
It's looking like sometime around noon, not sure yet though, I know, I know, it's tomorrow, but there really was no interest so I didn't really think we had to make it official.
www.northwestnissans.com /board/showthread.php?t=3851   (698 words)

  
 DRIVE YOUR OWN SUV WITH GEOQWEST EXCURSIONS LTD.
These safaris are designed to enrich your wilderness experiences made possible by the abilities of your four wheel drive vehicle.
The GeoQwest vehicle is also equipped with logging truck frequencies to guide the convoy on active logging roads.
A number of stops will include dialogue both on the landscape of the area as well as guidance on specific 4x4 driving issues found on the route.
www.geoqwestexcursions.com /convoy.html   (509 words)

  
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Barnet BC is now the Barnet Marine Park in Burnaby BC below Simon Fraser University.
In 1915, this location was quite remote and situated along the CPR line from Port Moody to Vancouver.
The boat was damaged and had to abort its mine-laying mission and arrived in Brest 6 August 1943 - U-106 sunk NW of Cape Ortegal, Spain, in position 46.35N, 11.55W, by depth charges from British and Australian Sunderland aircraft (Sqn 228/N & 461/M).
www.seawaves.com /newsletters/TDIH/august/02Aug.txt   (1713 words)

  
 Cassiar Convoy 2005 Updates & Bulletins   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-22)
I regret to advise that my personal participation in the Cassiar Convoy is at this time not possible.
There may be others who have planned to join the convoy but didn't make their intentions known to me.
There are a few restrictions which for reasons that including safety and liability, dictate we cannot go poking into some of the plantsite such as the mill which burned down a few years ago.
www.cassiar.ca /cassiar/convoy/updates.htm   (322 words)

  
 Convoy Distribution Ltd.'s HOME PAGE
CONVOY stocks a complete line of FIRE PROOFING COATINGS.
ULC (Canada) products are recognized and approved by the Building Inspector's, BC Fire Commissions Office and Fire Departments.
CONVOY ENGINEERING LIMITED has on staff professional consultants to assist in inspections and recommendations in meeting all CODE REQUIREMENTS.
www3.bc.sympatico.ca /convoy   (191 words)

  
 EEK - Mission Specs.
In order to compete in a big engagement like a fleet action you have to earn your way by either improving your combat skills and/or improving your teamwork skills through co-op play.
If you are a newbie you will find the grunt work missions like Convoy Escort duty easy and patrols harder.
If you are a veteran that likes to fly solo then you will compete well in the patrols and do OK in the 3v3 missions.
personal.lig.bellsouth.net /r/u/ruyger/Missions.htm   (504 words)

  
 Blue Core Fan Fold in CANADA - RC Groups
In BC it is carried by Convoy Supply.
I have gotten in contact with Convoy Supply in Penticton and Kelowna.
I picked up a bundle of plastic/plastic faced bluecore (ie not foil-faced) at the Convoy in Abbotsford just a few months ago.
www.rcgroups.com /forums/showthread.php?t=56493   (663 words)

  
 BCGNIS Geographical Name Details   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-22)
At S end of Convoy Passage Fitz Hugh Sound, W of Rivers Inlet, Range 2 Coast Land District
Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office
"An isolated, dangerous rock shoal in the middle of Convoy Passage.
srmwww.gov.bc.ca /bcgn-bin/bcg10?name=32014   (94 words)

  
 BMW Car Club of BC - 2002 Events and Activities
This session is designed for members who'd like to learn about doing their own BMW maintenance or would simply like to understand more about what they are paying a repair shop to do.
The BMW Car Club of BC is one of the newest members of the newly restructured BMW Club of Canada, and we are pleased that our region is the host location for the first National Directors meeting.
This session is designed for members who'd like to learn to do their own BMW maintenance or would simply like to understand more about what they are paying a repair shop to do.
www.bmwccbc.org /archive/2002.html   (1414 words)

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