TNA ADM 199 792

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APPENDIX V TO
Operation "DYNAMO" - Narrative of Events.
CO-OPERATION OF THE FRENCH NAVY.
(a) The following French warships and other vessels wearing the
French flag were employed evacuating French troops from Dunkirk
harbour, and on the last three nights, from the beach 1/2 miles
eastward from Dunkirk:-
Destroyers (9).
BRANLEBAS
INCOMPRISE
SIROCCO
BOUCLIER
BOURRASQUE
CYCLONE
FLORE
FOUDROYANT
MISTRAL
Avisos: (4).
AMIENS
BELFORT
ARRAS
AMIRAL MOUCHEZ
Fast Motor Boats:
3
Sub Chasers:
3
Auxiliary Minesweepers:
6
Small Cargo Vessels: 3 or 4 carrying munitions to Dunkirk
returning with troops.
Trawlers, Drifters and other small craft. 167 concentrated from
the French coast between Boulogne and Cherbourg, and employed
mainly off the beach. In addition the French mail packets COTE
D'ARGENT, COTE D'AZUR, NEWHAVEN and ROUEN were transferred to the
orders of the Vice Admiral, Dover, and were employed as required
side by side with the British personnel vessels.
(b) The French losses included:-
Destroyers: BOURRASQUE and FOUDROYANT sunk by bomb, and SIROCCO
by torpedo. CYCLONE badly damaged by torpedo, and
MISTRAL by bomb.
Trawlers, etc.: EMILE DESCHAMPS and DUPERRE, the drifter PIERRE
MARIE and 15 other small craft were sunk, inclu-
ding the Dutch yacht DEMOG I under French orders.
French packet: COTE D'AZUR sunk by bombs before her first trip.
X
(c) Covering patrols, mainly in the DYCK, were provided by the
two small cruisers LEOPARD and EPERVIER, and when not employed
evacuating troops, the four avisos acted as escorts along "X" Route
(a) 'Of' the 307,682 troops (excluding ambulance traffic) landed
in U.K. during DYNAMO, the following French troops were carried
in the above French vessels.
French troops disembarked in
Total per day
3 of
in U.K.
French and British
embarkation
Carried by
Total by
Troops disembarked in
U.K.
French
French and
U.K. (excdg.amblce.
vessels.
British vessels
traffic).
1 May
Nil
Nil
3373
"
Nil
Nil
13,948
"
655
655
38,843
11
5,444
8,616
48,474
"
4,032
14,874
58,312
; June
2,765
35,013
60,203
"
905
16,049
31,427
11
4,235
19,803
27,011
ber
"
2,349
26,989
26,995
"
140
1,096
1,096
ver*
TOTALS
20,525
123,095
309,682
ght.
les the above 20,525 troops landed in U.K., an unknown number was
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sported direct to French ports in French vessels.
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