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The convoy system was reaching southward through the Caribbean toward the South Atlantic, but in those areas and in the mid-Atlantic, sinkings of unconvoyed ships were still high.

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Short on tankers, Japan can ill afford to trade a short, unconvoyed lane to Sakhalin for the perilous haul from the south.

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Soon the news spread that the K-XIII had sailed over and dived through 10,000 miles of brine since leaving Helder in the Netherlands, had scored a distance record never before approached by an unconvoyed submarine.

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Many a ship, unconvoyed, had been sunk in the same period.

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With the submarines as active as they were, unconvoyed ships steered clear of well-known routes, where the German sea-monsters were most likely to lie in wait.

From Ruth Fielding Homeward Bound A Red Cross Worker's Ocean Perils by Emerson, Alice B.