I have returned refreshed from my family holiday!! Despite 2 sea journeys on the Isle of Wight car ferry, we managed to avoid any wolf packs lurking in the Solent - no doubt to my superior tactics!!

so - to work. the storm will be our friend - worse news for the U boats rather than us. I suggest the following:

1) Zig zaging is slowing us down - we should cut back our course changes to say twice an hour.
2) We should steer best course for home, taking into account the lesser Zig Zag
3) We should maintain our inner and outer ring of escorts.
4) We should ground all aircraft - which sounds like it has happened already. However we should urge one patrol a day - say at dawn - if at all possible with the weather. When the weather improves, we can go back to as best air coverage as we can.
5) During the night, we should arrange a fake attack with snowflakes etc to the east of the convoy. Our destroyers who have to return to Gib are there, so it would be good to try and make use of them. All merchants will be informed of the fake attack and it must be stressed that they should not fire their snowflakes.

Any thoughts fellow sailors??