convoy

noun, a group of ships travelling together or under escort (COD)

“We were on one convoy coming up, and she was on another convoy going down, and they got her and four other ships on the same convoy.”

“We went on and tried to go as far as we could, and we got by Saint George’s, and it was getting so the skipper says to the major, ‘We can’t do it.’ So we pulled out of the convoy and went in to Saint George’s, and we anchored for two days ‘til the wind went down.”

“We had another convoy waiting inside the gates there, you know.”

“We run in convoy a lot.”