2.A French escortvessel, Fs Vendemiaire, with 91 officers and soldiers, arrives at the dock of Yangzi River in Shanghai, east China, for a six-day goodwill visit on Nov.18, 2007.
4.Without the protection of a convoy and its escort, ships on their own as they struggled eastwards were picked off by U-Boats, sunk by aircraft, or damaged by aircraft then to finally succumb to a U-Boat attack.
