Mid Ocean Meeting Point
The Mid Ocean Meeting Point (MOMP) ( German "meeting point in the middle of the ocean" ) was the English name of a transfer point for the guarding of convoy trains .
During the First and Second World Wars , the Allied merchant ships that sailed across the Atlantic were combined into convoy trains in order to be able to better protect them from enemy attacks.
In the eastern half of the Atlantic, the British Royal Navy had to take over the guard and in the western part the US Navy and the Canadian Royal Canadian Navy .
For organizational reasons, a meeting point was set in the middle of the Atlantic, where the guards were exchanged between the navies . The warships of the previously guarding navy, which were assigned to protect, returned to their bases and their positions in the convoy were taken over by the ships of the other navy. During the Second World War, the MOMP was between the 26th and 22nd degrees of longitude.
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Individual evidence
- ^ Clay Blair : Der U-Boot-Krieg, Die Jäger 1939-1942 , Wilhelm Heyne Verlag, Munich 1998, ISBN 3-453-12345-X , p. 421