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for local escort near Gibraltar
The total number of merchant ships sailing thus in convoy every eight days in September, 1917, was about 150, in convoys comprising from 12 to 30 ships, and the total escorting forces comprised: 50 ocean escort vessels (old battleships, cruisers, armed merchant ships and armed escort ships), 90 sloops and destroyers, 15 vessels of the "P" class (small destroyers), 50 trawlers, in addition to a considerable force for local escort near Gibraltar, consisting of sloops, yachts, torpedo boats, U.S. revenue cruisers, U.S. tugs, etc. — from The Crisis of the Naval War by John Rushworth Jellicoe
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