They did not know I would have an escort home.

If that gallant gentleman is at hand, escort duty may, with perfect propriety, be left to him.

Between Southend and Boulogne and Calais the protection was given by the vessels of the Dover Patrol in the course of their ordinary duties, but for the other three routes special escort forces were utilized, and daily convoys were the rule.

But trawlers are unsatisfactory escort vessels.

Our submarines were being produced at an average rate of about two per month only, andapart from motor launches, which were only of use in the finest weather and near the coastthe only other vessels suitable for anti-submarine work that were building at the time, besides some sloops and P-boats, were trawlers, which, whilst useful for protection patrol, were too slow for most of the escort work or for offensive duties.

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The trawlers were engaged in patrol duty, convoy escort service, and minesweeping.

Your escort lame to door but came, There glad from me to part.

For actual escort work airships were superior to heavier-than-air machines owing to their greater radius of action, whilst for offensive work against a submarine that had been sighted the high speed of the seaplane or aeroplane was of great value.

And at sunset as we chanced to stroll along the Boulevard de la Reine, we saw the pretty cousin, all the gaiety fled from her face, bidding her escort farewell at the gate of a Pension pour Demoiselles.

It came my time for vedette duty, and Willis was the sergeant to do the escort act.

Suddenly, as the carts crossed a long culvert and the escort perforce massed on to the road, instead of straggling on either side beneath the trees, a voice said coolly in English "Up and fire," and as scores of surprised faces turned in the direction of the voice the night was rent with the crash of fifty rifles pouring in magazine fire at the rate of fifteen rounds a minute.