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stores so the remainder of these were transfered to 'Jaba'
who landed them by putting her bows on the beach
Haveng got between 400 and 500 soldiers exboard
by 1830 we weighed and stood by Jaba' for half an
hour until she had get afloat again and then proceeded
to Ramogate by Route with H.M.S 'Gmargne' in
company.
Between the Nienport and MiddleKiik burys
we were attacked by a German which made
two low level bombing attacks at about 300 feet,
deopping two bombs in each attack. The fist pain fell
about 40 feet from the ship on the starboard side and
on the second attack the bembs were considerably closer, the
hearest being between ten and fifteen feet away on the part
side. Both attacks were made from almost right
astern and with all the bombs there was a very
noticable delay between their sticking the water and
their exploding
The shock of the explosions lifted the engines
from their bed, strippeng the threads of the holding-down
bolts and breaking one in half. other damage
consisted of breaking most of the fillings aft, theouring
the compassout by about 20° and internal damage
to the gearbox
The aviciaft carried out two more attacks with
machine gursonly. wounding Six men. Fuist aid was
rendered by the Fuist Lieutenant and Coxswain
as the plane delivered his attacks 9 altered
course to Starboard and opened the with the Lewis gun.
This was hit in the ammunition pan on the third attack and
Q double feed resulted. It is posible that the enemy