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LOG of the m.v.s "SÉINE" Official No. 160693 of Roohester.
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Mate Master - C.V. Cogger.
- H.L. Stafford.
Engineer Is, Godden.
Deck Hands J. Lawson and J. Kirby.
May 22nd 1940
Sailed from Rochester at 7. 0 for S.R.D. Jetty,
Tednesday
Deptford, for stores for North France; arrived
alongside 2.0 p.m. and waited to load.
May 23rd 1940 Lying alongside S.R.D. Jetty waiting to load.
Thursday
May 24th 1940
Triday
Lying at Buoys off S.R.D. Jetty waiting to load.
May 25th 1940
Murday
Lying at Buoys off S.R.D. Jetty waiting to load.
May 26th 1940
Sunday
Lying at Buoys waiting to load.
Orders cancelled and instructed to proceed to
Tilbury Basin.
May 27th 1940
Monday
Arrived at Tilbury Basin and took on board 200
lifebelts; instructed to get a month's stores on
board and stand by.
May 28th 1940
Tuesday
Received orders at 3. 0 p.m. to go alongside Tilbury
landing stage to be demagnetised; 11. 0 p.m. ordered
to get vessel Into position; 12 midnight commenced
Degaussing wired.
May 29th 1940
Wednesday
Finished Degaussing wired 6. 0 a.m. commenced loading
3,500 petrol cans of drinking water. Finished loading
10,a.m. and proceeded to Shell Nex Thames Haven and
bunkered 694 gallons of Fuel and 80 gallons of paraffin.
Left at 1. 0 p.m. and arrived in Sheerness Dookyard
about 3. 0 p.m. having been delayed some time outside of
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Sheerness by patrol. Arrived at Sheerness and took on
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board one Officer and four Naval Ratings; had compass
adjusted; loaded another 1700 petrol cane water 6. 0
ex M.T. "Hurricane" and proceeded to La Panne at p.m.
arrived in the Gore Channel and anohored at dark.
May 30th 1940
Mursday
Belgium about 3. 0 p.m.; bombarded by shore batteries;
Weighed anchor in Gore Channel 4. 0 a.m. off Nieupost,
arrived at Bray, France and asked French Soldiers to
did not require water and jumped on board, letting take boats their
take water ashore for their comrades. They said they
boats drift away. I asked some of them to understand back
to little later we were informed that B.S.F. were further
shore for the others but they did not me.
A down Coast, we proceeded about three miles if fresh and arrived water was off
La Panue, enquired of British Officers took on board as
needed, they replied in the nagative, and
many Soldiers as we could take, French British, Q and
Just westward of Nieuport, bombarded again by
proceeded back to Ramsgate, leaving about 7. shore p.m.
batteries about 16 shells being fired at us, every one
midded. In crossing North Sea this night, one gunned, bomb
dropped 1 observed no British were Aeroplanes taken aboard. during
near us and on two occasions machine
no this casualties day. On this voyage 352 men