TNA ADM 199 792

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TNA ADM 199 792

Admiralty records concerning Operation Dynamo and the evacuation of troops from Dunkirk, covering 1940–1941.

Holding archive: TNA
Collection reference: ADM 199 792

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Source: The National Archives, Kew, ADM 199/792. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.

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OCR table 1 from document page 245
Royal Chatham. Naval Barracks,	202
15th June, 1940.	285

OCR table 2 from document page 245
FROM.	CAPTAIN AUXILIARY PATROL,	DOVER.
DATE	3rd August, Sept 1940.	No. BK/521/11/AP.
TO	FLAG OFFICER COMMANDING,	DOVER.

Boy Roy Paxton Brooker Dover Lovis May Prior

Raw OCR

Unformatted machine-generated OCR for document page 245.

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Royal Chatham. Naval Barracks,
202
15th June, 1940.
285
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at Dunkirk on 1st June 1940, Lieutenant Brooker Tug' in St command. Abbs"
I at have 0930 the honour to report the loss of H.M.
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May. 2. H.M. with Tug"St Abbs" sailed from Dover at 10 a.m. on Friday,
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FROM.
CAPTAIN AUXILIARY PATROL, DOVER.
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DATE
3rd August, Sept 1940.
No. BK/521/11/AP.
TO
FLAG OFFICER COMMANDING, DOVER.
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The following report on the sinking of
H.M.S. "Paxton" is submitted in accordance with Dover
No. B.22/1502/40 dated 1st July, 1940.
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At 1800 on 27th May, 1940, H.M.S. "Paxton"
me
(Lieut. Commander Prior, R.N., and Skipper A.M. Lovis,
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R.N.R., W.S. 3397 ) in company with H.M.S. "Boy Roy"
was approaching the outer channel at Dunkirk when both
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ships were attacked and bombed by a flight of enemy
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bombers who dropped 16 bombs. One bomb which fell
within 20 feet of "Paxton", exploded on contact with
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the water and started a severe leak. The ship was
placed alongside the quay, seacocks were opened, breech
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block removed, and the ship was holed by gunfire, all
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according to Lieut. Commander Prior's orders. No
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casualties were sustained and all Confidential Books
were destroyed by fire in the boiler before "Paxton"
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