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A.L.C. 8
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- Ship type: Landing Craft
- Return status: lost
Lloyd’s Yacht Register (1939)
Source: Lloyd’s Register Foundation, Heritage & Education Centre, Lloyd’s Register of Yachts 1939, digitised via Internet Archive. Licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0. Images have been converted, resized and watermarked for web display; machine-generated table OCR has been added.
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Source: The National Archives, Kew, ADM 199 795. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
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181 506 482 6. As far as can be ascertained, up to the present the following casualties were sustained by crews of A.L.C. :- Killed - one officer (Sub. Lieut R. Wilcoxon, R.N.V.R.) Wounded - Two ratings. Injured - Two ratings, Five craft were lost out of the nine employed; two of these were never hoisted out of the Clan Macalister owing to an accident to the derricks, and it appears that A.L.C. 8 and 15 need not have been lost, although the deliberate destruction of A.L.C. 10 was perhaps justified on the grounds that she was disabled and might fall into the hands of the enemy. of the 4 A.L.C. which returned, A.L.C. 5 7. is in SHEERNESS Dockyard in a damaged condition. It is suggested that she should be repaired there without delay, and that she should return to orts- mouth under her own power or in tow. An officer and a crew can be sent to fetch her. I would point out that these craft were 8. subjected to very abnormal use; they were invariably overloaded; a great strain was thrown on the engines the clutches owing to the fact that the sea off and at DUNKIRK was full of every form of floating etc., obstacle beaches including clothing, equipment, etc., which continually fouled the propellors,
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510 486 120 selim 01 Appendix "A". Part II. A.L.C.3. A.L.C. 3 was stowed in No. 8 hold in Clan Macalister, and was hoisted out at approx- imately noon. She worked the beach near Old Dunkirk embarking British troops until the evening, then as there were no vessels left in the vicinity, set off for Dover with about twenty soldiers aboard, Shortly after passing Dunkirk she fell in with A.L.C. 8 and 15, and in company with them arrived at Dover at dawn, on Thursday May 30th. 2. On the evening of Thursday, May 30th, the left Dover in company with A.L.C. 8 and 15, for Dunkirk beaches arriving there at dawn, Friday, May 31st. She evacuated troops, (French and British), until approximately 2230 hrs, when both engines gave out due to sand in the cooling systems, A.L.C.S was then taken in to# by 2 small merchant vessel who towed her to Ramrgate, where she arrived about 0500 hrs on Saturday June 1st. Two civilians volunteered to assist in attending to the engines, and eventually succeeded in repairing them satisfactorily. Ash.C. 3 then preceeded to Dover, and arrived there about 1130 hrs on Saturday 1st June. On reporting at Dover they were told to hold themselves in readiness to return to Dunkirk, but later were ordered to proceed in company with A.L.C. 17 to their base in Hayling Island, A.L.C. 3 reported at Hayling Island at 1300 hrs on
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512 488 APPENDIX "A" PART II smit stuoz ns A.L.C.8. A.L.C. 8 was the last A.L.O. to de hoisted out of the Clan Macalister. She proceeded inshore bringing British troops to the Clan Macalister and continued working from the Old Dunkirk and of the beach until about 1900 39th. May. when trouble experienced with the stern gland which became overheated. She therefore embarked some soldiers from A.L.C. 15 which appeared to So overorawled, and made for Cover,arriving there at Claims on Thursday, May 30th. Repairs to engines were affected and the returned to Dunkirk, reaching her destination at darm on Priday 31st. A.L.C. 8 continued bringing off troops, chiefly in towed boats. About 1100 Friday May 31st. the rubber mounting blocks of the engines appeared to be carrying away, however the coxswain carried on working until be vas finally forced to stop the port engine The starboard engine was also giving trouble, 30 after assisting to demolish A.L.C. 15 he ran one more trip with soldiers, putting them aboard & drifter which then towed them into Dunkirk harbour. This drifter, still towing them, left Dunkirk for Dover during Friday afternoon, Shortly after leaving, the wash of a vessel, passing at speed, parted the tow. As A.L.C. 8 was drifting out of the abannel, the Skipper of the drifter was unwilling to follow her to retake har in so an attempt was made to sigk her by gunfire from 8 the drifter's tow, 3 pdr. gun. This attempt failed, and A.L.C. was left drifting some one to two miles to the Westward of Dunkirk. Her grow returned to the base at Hayling Island onboard A.L.C's 3 and 17.
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88D 513 489 APPENDIX "A" PART II A.L.C. 15. A.L.C. 15 was the second boat to be hoisted out from Clan Macalister, and proceeded directly in shore embarking British troops from the vicinity of Old Dunkirk. Fifteen trips were carried out during the day, and at 2000 approximately, as no ships were in the vioinity to accommodate troops, she set off for Dover, with troops aboard. Shortly after passing Dunkirk she fall in with A.L.C. 3 and 8. These three A.L.C. reached Dover at dawn on Thursday May 30th. On Thursday evening A.L.C. 15, 8 and 3 laft 3 arriving off Dunkirk at dawn on Friday May s1st. Dover 15 had engine trouble, but carried on enbarking old A.L.C. troops from the beach in the vicinity of she British principally with the aid of Scate which on a Dunkirk, Eventually she damaged her propellors @ towed. motor lorry, and being out of control, dirifted a small trog of submerged beam on. The crew succeeded in launching off to a ashore the beach and so making their my after and of boat from A.L.C. 8 came alongaide shortly considered put drifter. 15's angineer ashore. As be apparently 15 be at A.L.C&B not be possible to salve A.baC. to burden that it would and shortly after ahe at ssan the to after part her on fire and the petrol tanks to explode, at fiercely, of the boat being blown high in the
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