TNA ADM 199 790

Collection details

TNA ADM 199 790

Admiralty records concerning Operation Dynamo and the evacuation of troops from Dunkirk, dating from 1940.

Holding archive: TNA
Collection reference: ADM 199 790

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Source: The National Archives, Kew, ADM 199/790. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.

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293	Log in to enlarge	164 * 280 & 1) Officers should have more instruction in landing or embarking from beaches. 2) Fast Motor Launches with Tee Drives utterly unamitable for beach work, 1.0. propellers too vulnerable. 3) Good use could have been cade of Rocket Apparatus substituting skirf for breeches bucy. 4) Efficient "Clear View cosential in small that lamohes. (5) "Hailing Seta would have been $ great asset. (6) Very good use could have been made of ordinary Grab Dredgers as landing Pentoons lying mored head and stern on to the beach by their anchor and grab DE the steem or quarter according to the wind and tide. these craft are available from London to Southampton. (7) In conclusion my fastest telp vas from Ramagate to Dunkirk and back with fifty-nine soliders in five hours in the W.D. Launch "Marlborough" I have the honour to be Sir, Your obedient servant. VICE ADMIRAL Comminder, Royal By. B - - JUN 1940 0 * DOVER E	London Marlborough De Dover Head

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Unformatted machine-generated OCR for document page 293.

164
* 280
&
1) Officers should have more instruction in landing
or embarking from beaches.
2) Fast Motor Launches with Tee Drives utterly unamitable
for beach work, 1.0. propellers too vulnerable.
3) Good use could have been cade of Rocket Apparatus
substituting skirf for breeches bucy.
4) Efficient "Clear View cosential in small that lamohes.
(5) "Hailing Seta would have been $ great asset.
(6) Very good use could have been made of ordinary Grab
Dredgers as landing Pentoons lying mored head and
stern on to the beach by their anchor and grab DE the
steem or quarter according to the wind and tide. these
craft are available from London to Southampton.
(7) In conclusion my fastest telp vas from Ramagate to
Dunkirk and back with fifty-nine soliders in five
hours in the W.D. Launch "Marlborough"
I have the honour to be
Sir,
Your obedient servant.
VICE ADMIRAL
Comminder, Royal By.
B - - JUN 1940
0
*
DOVER
E