WATU dinners as informal naval instruction

How many transatlantic marriages resulted from the Western Approaches contacts?

Apparently fewer than the dinner invitations might suggest. Many meetings involved instruction for a succession of officers.

Some marriages apparently resulted from these contacts, but no total is given. Women could meet a different naval officer on successive evenings to explain the same operational lessons. The meetings often functioned as private tuition, limiting how far repeated dinner invitations developed into courtship.