Although no MAC-ships aircraft ever sink a German submarine, no convoy containing a MAC-ship ever loses a ship, and none of the MAC ships are lost.

During World War II, no submarine makes a successful attack against a convoy containing a MAC-ship.

On 31 March 2004 – Iraqi insurgents in Fallujah ambushed a convoy containing four American private military contractors from Blackwater USA who were conducting delivery for food caterers ESS.

A company led by Captain Jean Danjou, numbering 62 soldiers and 3 officers, was escorting a convoy to the besieged city of Puebla when it was attacked and besieged by two thousand revolutionaries, organised in three battalions of infantry and cavalry, numbering 1, 200 and 800 respectively.

* November – Belisarius brings his long-awaited reinforcements, namely 3, 000 Isaurians and 1, 800 cavalry embarked in Ostia, along with a supply convoy, safely to Rome.

The first engagement of this new form of warfare was at Sanna's Post on 31 March where 1, 500 Boers under the command of Christiaan De Wet attacked Bloemfontein's waterworks about east of the city, and ambushed a heavily escorted convoy, which caused 155 British casualties and the capture of seven guns, 117 wagons, and 428 British troops.

From late May 1900, the first successes of the Boer strategy were at Lindley ( where 500 Yeomanry surrendered ), and at Heilbron ( where a large convoy and its escort were captured ) and other skirmishes resulting in 1, 500 British casualties in less than ten days.

Although the Panay was flying the American flag, the convoy came under attack at 1: 27pm by three B4Y Type 96 bombers and nine A4N Type 95 fighters.

* 1 – 2 February 1942, a night attack by four P-40s flying two sorties each bombed and strafed a 13-barge convoy attempting to delivery 700 reinforcements to the Japanese beachheads, destroying nine and killing approximately half the troops aboard, confirmed later by Japanese records.

On 18 February, Kretschmer sank the 1, 300 ton British fleet destroyer off the Pentland Firth while she was escorting convoy HN-12 from Norway.

The convoy was located by German forces on 1 July, after which it was shadowed continuously and attacked.

New York Harbor, as the major convoy embarkation point for the U. S., was effectively a staging area in the Second Battle of the Atlantic, with the U. S. Merchant Marine losses of 1 of 26 exceeding those of the other U. S. forces.

On 1 June 1794, a fleet under Admiral Villaret Joyeuse fought the Third Battle of Ushant to prevent the Royal Navy from destroying a large convoy, inbound from the United States, that transported grain to the starving France.

On 1 November 2004, a civil affairs convoy was ambushed near Surobi, between the Shkin firebase and Orgun-E. U. S. Army Spc.

* April 1 – 2 – U. S. Army Fifth Air Force bombers attack a Japanese convoy bound for Kavieng, sinking a merchant ship and damaging the heavy cruiser Aoba and a destroyer.

** Six U. S. Army Air Forces B-24 Liberators take off from Attu to fly the 1, 300 miles ( 2, 093 km ) round-trip to attack the Japanese base at Paramushiro, in what would have been the first Allied air raid against the Kurile Islands ; however, they are diverted en route to join B-25 Mitchells in attacking a convoy of Japanese transports, suffering one aircraft damaged before returning to Attu.

* August 11 – Axis opposition to Operation Pedestal – an Allied resupply convoy to Malta escorted by the British aircraft carriers,, and, against which 1, 000 Axis aircraft have gathered in Sicily and Sardinia – begins when the German submarine U-73 hits Eagle with four torpedoes in the Mediterranean Sea about 80 nautical miles ( 141 km ) north of Algiers.

110 ships in convoy ; a further 60 lost straggling, and 36 while detached or after dispersal, with loses from marine accident and other causes, for a total loss of 206 ships, or about 1 % of the total.

On 1 December 1652 Lieutenant-Admiral Maarten Tromp, again ( unofficial ) supreme commander after his successor Vice-Admiral Witte de With had suffered a breakdown because of his defeat at the Battle of the Kentish Knock, set sail from Hellevoetsluis with 88 men of war and 5 fireships, escorting a vast convoy bound for the Indies.

The Battle of the Beanfield took place over several hours on the afternoon of Saturday 1 June 1985 when Wiltshire Police prevented a vehicle convoy of several hundred new age travellers, known as

The convoy, moving at, was not detected for several days because of two tropical storms which struck the Solomon and Bismarck Seas between 27 February and 1 March.

However, at about 15: 00 on 1 March, the crew of a patrolling B-24 Liberator heavy bomber spotted the convoy.

* 2005 In January 2005, A co, 1 / 194 armor battalion arrived at Camp Ashraf ( about 80 km north of Baghdad to conduct security and convoy operations in the surrounding area and conducted joint operations with Iraqi Army ahead of the Oct 2005 Iraqi constitution ratification vote.

On 21 October in the Battle at the Lizard, he helped Duguay-Trouin in destroying almost entirely an English convoy set for Portugal: on 80 ships, 60 merchantman and four ships of the line were captured, and 1 other was sunk.

The lead ships of the columns were spaced at intervals of 1, 000 yards ( 910 m ) along a line perpendicular to the convoy course.

Ten more ships were cut out of the convoy, their total value approaching $ 1 million.

The AIF departed by ship in a single convoy from Albany on 1 November 1914.

A Japanese naval transport convoy headed towards Guadalcanal is turned-back by an Allied air attack, losing one destroyer and one transport sunk, and one light cruiser heavily damaged.

* 1943 – World War II: Battle of the Bismarck Sea – United States and Australian forces sink Japanese convoy ships.

* August 18 – WWII: Submarine Rasher sinks Teia Maru, Eishin Maru, Teiyu Maru, and carrier from Japanese convoy HI71 in one of the most effective American " wolfpack " attacks of the war.

* March 2 – WWII: Battle of the Bismarck Sea – United States and Australian forces sink Japanese convoy ships.

* August 6 – WWII – Battle of Vella Gulf: Americans defeat a Japanese convoy off Kolombangara, as the U. S. Army drives the Japanese out of Munda airfield on New Georgia.

That night the detachment conducted a successful attack on Japanese aircraft at Nielson Field, then shot up a truck convoy on the north shore of Manila Bay.

The Beiyang fleet had completed escorting a convoy to the mouth of the Yalu River, and was returning to its base at Lushunkou ( Port Arthur ) when it was engaged by the Japanese navy.

By late afternoon, with no further sightings of Japanese ships, two aircraft strike forces from Saratoga and Henderson Field took off to attack Tanaka's convoy.

The mission may also have been intended by Nagumo as a decoy to divert U. S. attention so that the rest of the Japanese force could approach the U. S. naval forces undetected as well as to help provide protection and cover for Tanaka's convoy.

An uninjured but shaken Tanaka transferred to the destroyer, sent Jintsu back to Truk, and took the convoy to the Japanese base in the Shortland Islands.

Luckily for Tunku, all vehicles in the convoy had been directed to space out at two-minute intervals to avoid attracting the attention of Japanese war planes, armed with machine guns, which were patrolling the sky over North Kedah.

In addition to approaching Guadalcanal with the objective of engaging any Japanese ships that might come into range, the U. S. task force was protecting an Allied transport ship convoy carrying replacement troops there.

On 29 January 1943, Halsey sent five task forces toward the southern Solomons area to cover the relief convoy and to engage any Japanese naval forces that came into range.

In early November 1942, the Japanese organized a transport convoy to take 7, 000 infantry troops and their equipment to Guadalcanal to attempt once again to retake the airfield.

Several Japanese warship forces were assigned to bombard Henderson Field with the goal of destroying Allied aircraft that posed a threat to the convoy.

In addition to delivering the troops and their equipment by Tokyo Express runs, the Japanese also successfully pushed through one large convoy of slower transport ships.

*, a Grimsby class sloop commissioned in 1936 and was lost on 4 March 1942 while defending a convoy from five Japanese warships

On 23 January 1942, a force of four American destroyers attacked a Japanese invasion convoy in Makassar Strait as it approached Balikpapan in Borneo.

On 14 September, Wasp was hit by three torpedoes fired by Japanese submarine while supporting a major reinforcement and resupply convoy to Guadalcanal and almost engaging two Japanese carriers and ( who withdrew just before the two adversaries came into range of each other's aircraft ).