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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279	Log in to enlarge	311-308 or 3 - MAY29 The Vice Admiral, Dover, stressed that those Navol Ratings must be got away and must not run the risk of getting caught schore at the ond. I met the signal officer, Viscount Kelburn, who had been lont to me, and arranged that he should collect a party of Signal Ratings to accompany me. I was also much surprised to meet Commodores Stevenson and Hallett, who arrived at Dover by train after I did; I thought they were already at Dunkirk. I finally sailed in the "ESK" at 2000 with these two Officers, the disciplinary beach parties and my signalmen and staff. There was no news of the 200 men of the beach parties and I do not know to this day what became of them. On the way over I arranged that Commodore Stevenson would take charge off La Panne, and Commodore Hallett off Braye, and at that time I intended to be off St. Malo and Dunkirk myself or to put Captain Bush in charge there. I also spoke to the officers in charge of the disciplinary parties and warned them not to get caught but said that it would probably be impossible to give them any order as to when to come off, It was thought that the embarkation could hardly go on for 1201'C than a day or two and each day we expected to be the last. At this time I must confess that I had very little idea of what it was going to be possible to do or how to set about it. I knew that large numbers of craft of all sorts, Destroyers Sloops and Minesweepers were fetching troops back, but I had no idea at all of local conditions - where they could borth, the possibilities of using the harbour - boat facilities for off shore transport - or what communications oxisted. My general plan was to put an officer in some amall ship in charge off shore at each of the main beaches and to try and organise the flow of ships to the beaches myself from some central position. In the "ESK" we were kindly given some sandwiches, and after a short talk we made ourselves as comfortable as we could in the Captain's cabin and tried to sleep. I...	Boat Commodore Viscount Bush Day Dover Last Little

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Unformatted machine-generated OCR for document page 279.

311-308
or 3 -
MAY29
The Vice Admiral, Dover, stressed that those Navol Ratings must
be got away and must not run the risk of getting caught schore at the
ond. I met the signal officer, Viscount Kelburn, who had been lont to
me, and arranged that he should collect a party of Signal Ratings to
accompany me.
I was also much surprised to meet Commodores Stevenson and Hallett,
who arrived at Dover by train after I did; I thought they were already
at Dunkirk.
I finally sailed in the "ESK" at 2000 with these two Officers, the
disciplinary beach parties and my signalmen and staff. There was no
news of the 200 men of the beach parties and I do not know to this day
what became of them.
On the way over I arranged that Commodore Stevenson would take
charge off La Panne, and Commodore Hallett off Braye, and at that time
I intended to be off St. Malo and Dunkirk myself or to put Captain Bush
in charge there. I also spoke to the officers in charge of the dis-
ciplinary parties and warned them not to get caught but said that it would
probably be impossible to give them any order as to when to come off,
It was thought that the embarkation could hardly go on for 1201'C than a
day or two and each day we expected to be the last.
At this time I must confess that I had very little idea of what it
was going to be possible to do or how to set about it. I knew that
large numbers of craft of all sorts, Destroyers Sloops and Minesweepers
were fetching troops back, but I had no idea at all of local conditions -
where they could borth, the possibilities of using the harbour - boat
facilities for off shore transport - or what communications oxisted.
My general plan was to put an officer in some amall ship in charge
off shore at each of the main beaches and to try and organise the flow of
ships to the beaches myself from some central position.
In the "ESK" we were kindly given some sandwiches, and after a short
talk we made ourselves as comfortable as we could in the Captain's cabin
and tried to sleep. I...