Better still was the way the Navy finished off the submarine blockade.
Of the 203 enemy submarines destroyed 151 were finished by the British
Navy. The French, Americans, and Italians killed off the rest. All the
150 submarines surrendered came slinking into Harwich, the great British
base for submarines. All the 170 submarines the Germans were building
when the war was stopped were given up to the Allied Naval Commission
headed by a British admiral and backed by a British fleet.
But even more wonderful than this was the oversea transport done by all
kinds of British sea-power working together as one United Service. The
British carried nearly half of all the imports into Italy and France.
They repaired more than a thousand ships a month. They ferried nearly
two-thirds of all the Americans that crossed the Atlantic. They took to
the many different fronts more than half a million vehicles, from
one-horse carts to the biggest locomotives; more than two million
animals--horses, mules, and camels; and more than twenty-two millions of
men.
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