[Quickrip-cvs] 26 howitzers placed at the same time

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Outes marked.] The approach areas were patrolled at the time, so far as
numbers admitted, by patrol craft (trawlers, torpedo-boat destroyers,
and sloops), and ships with specially valuable cargoes were given
directions to proceed to a certain rendezvous on the outskirts of the
area, there to be met by a destroyer or sloop, if one was available for
the purpose. The areas were necessarily of considerable length, by
reason of the distance from the coast at which submarines operated, and
of considerable width, owing to the necessity for a fairly wide
dispersion of traffic throughout the area. Consequently, with the
comparatively small number of patrol craft available, the protection
afforded was but slight, and losse