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WI ships from the High Seas Fleet were sent out to raid British commerce. Obviously the HSF cound not take on the Grand Fleet. Equally the whole of the Grand Fleet could not have been with every convoy.

A convoy might be a better target for an armoured cruiser or a Battle Cruiser than individual merchant ships. The sort of escort sent to protect from Submarines would not be enough.

It might even have made convoys too dangerous.

I know perfectly well that most such raiders would eventually end up on the bottom of the sea but they would do the Kaiser's regime more good than they did just staying in port.
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