TNA ADM 199 790

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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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OCR table 1 from document page 612
page BYSTANDER Lei	tage QUISISIANA/ 219
LLANTHONY / 165	LADY CABLE 220
CHRISTOBEL 2 178	EMPRESS 221
[X] CALETA 176	SKYLARK 223
[X] [ ] GLALA 173	224 SOUTHERN QUEEN
[X] AMULREE 172	PRINCESS LILLY 225
R 182 MASAYRU	SKYLARK VI 226
184 LAROC ,	WHITEBEAR 227
JONG 187	DOLPHIN'S M.B.V 228
3 R.A.F. M.B.43 191	WALTON & FRINTON LIFEBOAT 1230
SILVER QUEEN 192 boo	[X] CORDELIA 239
REDA 194	PELLAG II. 14
[X] SKYLARK 195	SKYLARK 241
MARY ROSE 196	BOURNEMOUTH LIFEBOAT 243
SINGAPORE 197	248 BONNY BELLE
MOTOR BARGE SHEFFIELD	EASTBOURNE LIFEBOAT 125
Ex LIGHTER Y.C.63 /	216 M.B. Unknown 198
Ex LIGHTER X.95	SEA FALCON 249
[X] M.L. NANETTE 2	219 SKYLARK,

Amulree Aura Bluebird Britannia Bystander Caleta Caversham Commodore Constant Nymph Cordelia Dolphin Empress Falcon Glala Jong Lady Cable Laroc Llanthony Mary Mary Rose Newhaven Pellag II Princess Queen Reda Rose Sea Falcon Silver Queen Singapore Skylark Skylark VI Southern Queen Triton Barge May Page Rose

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COPY!/3
2024
OPERATION DYNAMO
NARRATIVES BY PERSONNEL OF SMALL CRAFT.
INDEX
NAME OF VESSEL
WRITTEN BY
1. TUG 87
Sub.Lieut. H.M. Davis, R.N.R.
2. M.B. BLUE BIRD
If
G.B. Eyre, R.N.V.R.
3. M.B. AURA
#
M.A. Chodzko, R.N.V.R.
4. M.B. BRITANNIA
If
S.D. Ward
5. M.B.'s CAVERSHAM and QUISISIANA
If
A.V. Weaver
6. M.B. LADY CABLE
Lieut. B.S. Fidler, R.N.R.
7. M.B. EMPRESS
Sub.Lieut. T.W. Betts, R.N.V.R.
8. M.B. SKYLARK
If
M.J.R. Yeatman, R.N.V.R.
9. M.B. SOUTHERN QUEEN
#
Demattos
0. M.B. PRINCESS LILLY
#
K.E.A. Bayley
1. M.B. SKYLARK VI
Ct. Rating G.R. Price
2. H.M.M.B. WHITE BEAR
Cd. Gunner E. Deacon, R.N.
3. H.M.S. DOLPHIN's Motor Boat
Sub.Lieut. E.F. Cornish-Bowden, R.N.
4. WALTON and FRINTON Life Boat
P.O. Tel. Cooley.
5. M.B. CORDELIA
Sub.Lieut. C.A. Thompson
6. M.B. PELLAG II
Lieut.
Martino, R.N.V.R.
STATEMENT BY
7. M.B. SKYLARK (Southend)
Pensioner P.O. R.A. Smith
8. BOURNEMOUTH Life Boat
L. Sea. H. Huntington
9. M.B. BONNY BELLE
Sto. I. G.H. Rose
O. EASTBOURNE Life Boat
(Sto. J. Strangeways P/KX.95036 and
(Sto. A.H. Shaw P/KX.94553
1. M.B. (Unknown)
A.B. M.J. Stallard P/JX.154107
2. M.B. SEA FALCON
L.Sea. A. Westbrook P/JX.131401
3. M.B. SKYLARK
Sto. G. Bramhall P/KX.88343
4. M.B. COMMODORE
Sto. Beech P/KX.90016
5. NEWHAVEN Life Boat
(A.B. W.J. Morris P/JX.126097
(Sto.I W. Spray P/KX.87052
(0.S. T.E. White CDX.133
6, M.B. YSER
Act. P.O. W.H. Achin JX.149919

Aura Blue Bird Boat Britannia Caversham Commodore Cordelia Dolphin Empress Falcon Lady Cable Newhaven Pellag II Princess Queen Rose Sea Falcon Skylark Skylark VI Southern Queen White Bear Bayley Betts Bramhall Chodzko Cooley Cornish Davis Deacon Eyre Fidler Huntington Martino Morris Rose Shaw Smith SMITH R.A Spray Strangeways Thompson Ward Weaver Westbrook White Yeatman

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248
OPERATION
231
NO.22
SHIP:-
NAME NOT KNOWN. SEA FALCON (?).
About 40 ft. open M/B, grey.
(Similar to FAIRY NYMPH)
STATEMENT BY $
Crew
Service
$
L.S. A.Westbrook 30th. Left Dover after dark with L.S. in charge.
PJX 131401. Towed in company with about 5 others by tug - two
O.S. Smith.
tows. Foremost boat of opposite four broke
Sto. Hardwick.
adrift, swung back, hit stern sheets and broke main feed pipe. Proceeded on reserve tank, repeatedly filling from main tank. Arrived. off beach near Gravelines and ran gauntlet of fire from beach as far as Dunkirk and on to Bray. Filled boat by grounding and pulling in soldiers - -
continued from dawn Friday to dusk Friday. Stores being swamped had nothing to eat. Only water was in few bottles filled at pier.
On last trip rising tide and wind swamped boat, carried it broadside on. Crew abandoned boat and swam ashore. Other boats could not get near enough to get a line across. About 60 carried each trip.
Continual bombing all day. Smith found a cance, floated it, paddled with piece of driftwood to
Walmer Lifeboat. Others walked along beach to pier and boarded destroyer. Beach littered with guns and equipment and fairly crowded with soldiers, mostly French. On pier shrapnel was bursting over, marching troops several casualties.
Saw ship hit by bomb in distance in La Pame direction. Saw 5 or 6 dive bombers brought down by destroyers. A number of boats working off beach all day.

Boat Broke Dawn Falcon Gravelines Sea Falcon Day Dover Few Last Smith SMITH S Westbrook