This vital convoy carried 40,000 troops intended to oppose Gen. MacArthur in New Guinea, and the embarked units suffered losses of nearly 50 percent.

The convoy was postponed because a large part of the Royal Navy was engaged in Operation Pedestal, protecting a vital convoy to Malta in August.

He was in command of the French fleet during the Glorious First of June, where, at great costs for his forces, he successfully drew the British away from a vital convoy.

Ulysses puts to sea again to escort FR-77, a vital convoy heading for Murmansk.

This helped allies to hunt U-boats, protect vital convoys and support mid-Atlantic Air Transport Command ferry efforts.

These ships guarded the movement of vital convoys through the most dangerous waters of their passage across the Atlantic.

A vital convoy is heading to Malta, escorted by five Royal Navy light cruisers, including HMS Artemis.

If the Dutch made a sortie into the North Sea they would be able to threaten Britain's vital Baltic convoys, including precious naval stores which were needed for continuing the war.

They captured Newtown by surprise, capturing a vital convoy of gunpowder which the besieged Royalists at Liverpool desperately needed, and then advanced to Montgomery.

Both sides claimed victory, since the British sank or captured a quarter of the French Atlantic Fleet with minimal losses of their own, but the vital convoy got through unharmed.