TNA ADM 199 792

Collection details

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

View the archive catalogue entry ↗

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

Showing only pages tagged with the vessel name Dawn. Tags are exact matches from this collection’s OCR tag index. Clear vessel filter ×

Showing only document page 991. Show all matching pages ×

1 matching pages. OCR may contain transcription errors.

List page 1 of 1 Showing document pages 991–991 of this collection

A note about image and OCR quality

Every reasonable effort has been made to present these document images as flat, straight and accurately cropped as possible. Historical records can be difficult to photograph or scan because of tight bindings, deep gutters, page curvature, folds, creases, fragile paper, uneven edges, shadows, glare, skewed pages, fading, stains, tears, attachments and restrictions on how a document may be handled. These conditions can distort parts of an image and consequently affect the OCR transcription.

Considerable post-production work has been undertaken to crop, align, flatten and enhance the images where practicable, but the results represent our best effort rather than exact facsimiles. Text showing through from the reverse of a page, printed backgrounds, stamps, ruled lines, marks and text visible from neighbouring pages may confuse or spoil OCR output. Handwriting is not reliably recognised and, in most places, may be missing, incomplete or incorrectly transcribed. Always check the page image and, where accuracy matters, consult the original record held by the identified archive.

OCR is not a transcription. It is machine-generated text used to create research tags and help locate names and references within the source images; it should not be read as a verified narrative.

Page	Image	OCR text	OCR tags
991	Log in to enlarge	Page 93. Operation "DYNAMO" - Recommendations of Personnel. H.M.S. KING ORRY. - Commander Jeffery Elliott, R.N.R. This ship and completed whilst one trip, bringing back 1,100 batteries troops, for 20 minutes on her way back was fired over by shore at the and hit three times. at gunned, made and resulted. The damage from shell addition, but no damage same time the ship was bombed and machine In on the way over water bombing attacks took place, bombs fire was good dive the ship again sailed for Dunkirk. exploded under and the ship was shaken badly. A 2nd attack and outside smashed the harbour put the steering gear out manoeuvred harbour. Another attack took place of action into the all instruments and woodwork. Ship and again there were near misses. Ship was holed under water forward and aft but pumps appeared to keep water down. As ship would most probably be attacked at dawn it was felt that it would be better to clear the harbour and so avoid blocking the channel. When clear of the harbour, however, ship took a serious lift and water entered the stokeholds. In the end the ship foundered clear of the channel. Recommendation. uso OFFICER: Commander Jeffery Elliott, R.N.R, By his initiative, gallantry under fire and good seamanship, ship was placed alongside at Dunkirk under great difficulties due to steering gear having been put out of action and his decision to move ship out of harbour during dark hours prevented the ship from blocking the harbour and the channel. Recommended for decoration.	Dawn Elliott King Page

Raw OCR

Unformatted machine-generated OCR for document page 991.

Page 93.
Operation "DYNAMO" - Recommendations of Personnel.
H.M.S. KING ORRY. - Commander Jeffery Elliott, R.N.R.
This ship and completed whilst one trip, bringing back
1,100 batteries troops, for 20 minutes on her way back was fired over by
shore at the and hit three times. at
gunned, made and resulted. The damage from shell
addition, but no damage same time the ship was bombed and machine In
on the way over water bombing attacks took place, bombs
fire was good dive the ship again sailed for Dunkirk.
exploded under and the ship was shaken badly. A
2nd attack and outside smashed the harbour put the steering gear out
manoeuvred harbour. Another attack took place
of action into the all instruments and woodwork. Ship
and again there were near misses. Ship was holed under
water forward and aft but pumps appeared to keep water
down. As ship would most probably be attacked at dawn it
was felt that it would be better to clear the harbour and
so avoid blocking the channel. When clear of the
harbour, however, ship took a serious lift and water
entered the stokeholds. In the end the ship foundered
clear of the channel.
Recommendation.
uso
OFFICER:
Commander Jeffery Elliott, R.N.R,
By his initiative, gallantry under fire and
good seamanship, ship was placed alongside at Dunkirk
under great difficulties due to steering gear having
been put out of action and his decision to move ship
out of harbour during dark hours prevented the ship
from blocking the harbour and the channel.
Recommended for decoration.