A wreck chart becomes a map of wartime traffic. Repeated losses form lines along the routes used by coastal convoys, while larger clusters suggest ports or waters where ships assembled and dispersed. The image makes clear that danger was concentrated around predictable shipping lanes rather than spread evenly across the coast. Opening the video here gives a visual counterpart to the earlier loss statistics and route descriptions.
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A wreck map traces Britain's coastal convoy routes
Clusters and lines of Second World War wrecks make the convoy lanes and their assembly points visible along Britain's east coast.