The Mid-Ocean Meeting Point (MOMP) was the name of a transfer point for the guarding of convoys.

In the First

World War I

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 and Second World War merchant ships of the Allies on the Atlantic sailed grouped into convoy

Convoy

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s to protect them better against enemy attacks.

In the eastern half of the Atlantic the British Royal Navy was responsible for guarding the convoys and in the western part the United States Navy

United States Navy

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 or the Royal Canadian Navy

Royal Canadian Navy

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was responsible.

For organizational reasons a meeting place in the middle of the Atlantic was established where the guard between the navies was changed. The warships guarding the convoy so far returned to their bases and their positions in the convoy were taken by ships from the navy responsible for the second half of the route.