TNA ADM 199 790

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to Dunkirk East Pier destroyers will be
sent there as well. All other craft
except Hospital Carriers to embark from
beach which is extended from one mile East
of Dunkirk to one mile East of La Panne.
Part 2 follows."
Part 2 received as follows :-
Whole length is divided into 3 equal ports
referred to as La Panne, Bray, Malo, from
East to West with a mile gap between each
port. La Panne and Bray have troop
concentration points each end and in middle;
Malo at each end. These points should be
tended by inshore craft.
Pass this message by V/S to ships not equipped
U/I, as opportunity offers. Destroyer at
Dunkirk pass to S.N.O. Dunkirk."
This was exactly what was required.
In the evening a series of fierce air attacks
were made on the Seatern Arm. These resulted in H.N.S. GREMADE
being bombed while embarking troops. It looked for the
moment as though she might sink and block the entrance to the
harbour but a trawler and drifter were sent to assist her
and managed to guide her into 8 pocket to the Westward of
the main channel. She burned fiercely for some hours and
eventually blew up with a loud explosion.
A trawler was also bombed and sank in the channel
in
about 50 yards from the East Pier about two cables/from the
Rastern Lighthouse.
The transport FENELLA was sunk while loading at
the outside extremity of the Kastern Arm. She was practically
fully loaded but the troops were transferred to another ship
with very little loss
A troop transport CRESTED KAGLE was bombed and
rendered unusable. She drifted down towards Bray where she
ran aground. A "J" Class destroyer was bombed off the
beaches but was taken in tow by another destroyer.