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 document page 1036. Show all matching pages ×

1 matching pages. OCR may contain transcription errors.

List page 1 of 1 Showing document pages 1,036–1,036 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
1036	Log in to enlarge	Operation "DYNAMO" - Recommendations of Personnel. Page 133 HELIER (Continued). air heavy room on her staff, work. raid. but On these The Master were replaced had trouble with the one first plane trip, was while shot each down trip by made the ship's the ship and the was ship bombed continued engine and shells. in Dunkirk, the ship gunners. was hit by On two the Recommendations. OFFICERS. Master, Reginald Richard Pittman. from ship gunfire Dunkirk under many difficulties, brought Through into his initiative and seamanship the people and bombing, but also due to the not lack only of mooring the ship. Recommended for decoration. First Officer Hubert Donald Freeman. and assisted in getting the ship properly moored Displayed courage after ship had been hit by shell, alongside, in addition was able to keep up the spirits of the crew, this though they had been through a very strenuous time. Recommended for mention. Second Officer Frank Edward Martin. Showed courage and gallantry without any regard to his own safety, having been wounded, thus enabling the ship to get alongside without further damage. This officer refused to give up after he had been wounded and carried on, although obviously in pain. Recommended for decoration. TYNWALD as W. Qualtrough, Master. May 27th - June 1st. J. H. Whiteway, Master. June 2nd - June 4th. demoralised, and naval officer and ratings put Ship but fifteen hands remained. A new on as did five trips. After the third trip, Captain crew were was stiffeners. provided Whilst in Dunkirk the ship was continuously under fire, both from guns and from planes. Recommendations. who The remained, new and in particular the Captain thoroughly recommends Chief Officer. the crew OFFICER/	Tynwald Freeman Martin May Page Qualtrough Whiteway

Raw OCR

Unformatted machine-generated OCR for document page 1036.

Operation "DYNAMO" - Recommendations of Personnel. Page
133
HELIER (Continued).
air
heavy room on her staff, work. raid. but On these The Master were replaced had trouble with the
one first plane trip, was while shot each down trip by made the ship's the ship and the was ship bombed continued engine and
shells. in Dunkirk, the ship gunners. was hit by On two the
Recommendations.
OFFICERS.
Master, Reginald Richard Pittman.
from ship gunfire Dunkirk under many difficulties, brought
Through into his initiative and seamanship the
people and bombing, but also due to the not lack only of
mooring the ship.
Recommended for decoration.
First Officer Hubert Donald Freeman.
and assisted in getting the ship properly moored
Displayed courage after ship had been hit by shell,
alongside, in addition was able to keep up the spirits
of the crew, this though they had been through a very
strenuous time.
Recommended for mention.
Second Officer Frank Edward Martin.
Showed courage and gallantry without any regard to
his own safety, having been wounded, thus enabling the
ship to get alongside without further damage. This
officer refused to give up after he had been wounded
and carried on, although obviously in pain.
Recommended for decoration.
TYNWALD as W. Qualtrough, Master. May 27th - June 1st.
J. H. Whiteway, Master. June 2nd - June 4th.
demoralised, and naval officer and ratings put
Ship but fifteen hands remained. A new on as
did five trips. After the third trip, Captain crew were
was stiffeners. provided Whilst in Dunkirk the ship was continuously
under fire, both from guns and from planes.
Recommendations.
who The remained, new and in particular the
Captain thoroughly recommends Chief Officer. the crew
OFFICER/