Identifier: simsaduslondonam00leig (find matches)
Title: Simsadus: London; The American navy in Europe
Year: 1920 (1920s)
Authors: Leighton, John Langdon. (from old catalog)
Subjects: United States. Navy World War, 1914-1918
Publisher: New York, H. Holt and company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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This curve, known as the Tonnage Curve, shows the progressivesuccess of the convoy system. Its success, during the first fewmonths of its institution, was marked, and thereafter slow butsteady. Thus this apparently insignificant curve tells the history ofAllied Victory and German defeat, in a very comprehensible man-ner. It was the authors pleasure to keep this chart up to dateeach month.
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FURTHER DEVELOPMENTS 6i Europe by the Navy Department in November, 1917,and on December sixth joined the British GrandFleet as the 6th Battle Squadron under AdmiralBeatty in the North Sea. The British Grand Fleethad been on duty in the North Sea since the out-break of the War. It had been a fortunate coinci-dence that in July, 1914, the entire Fleet had beenassembled for its annual manoeuvres; since that time ithad remained intact in the North Sea. Incidentally,Germany often claimed that this was proof of Eng-lands desire for War. Occasionally, scouting ves-sels of the two nations had encountered each otherand short, running fights had ensued; the only com-bat of any importance had been the Battle of Jut-land, which took place on June ist, 1916. On that day the British Grand Fleet was at sea inone of those sweeping cruises periodically under-taken for practice, manoeuvering, and general exer-cise of the various units. In the afternoon, whenabout 100 miles from Heligoland, a portion of

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