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 Aronia. Tags are exact matches from this collection’s OCR tag index. Clear vessel filter ×

4 matching pages. OCR may contain transcription errors.

List page 1 of 1 Showing document pages 118–889 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
118	Log in to enlarge	CONFIDENTIAL. APPENDIX. VI. 179 to Operation "DYNAMO" - Narrative of Events. 177 5 Enemy aircraft destroyed by ships' fire. Ship. Locality. Time. Polish T.B.D. BLYSKAWICA Dunkirk Roads. H.M.S. VIVACIOUS 0315/27 Dunkirk Roads. H.M.S. VIVACIOUS 1130/27 Dunkirk Roads. H.M.S. WOLFHOUND 1140/27 Dunkirk Roads. H.M.P.M/S MEDWAY QUEEN 1500/27 North Goodwin. HcM.Sc MONTROSE Dawn/28 Near Kwinte Buoy. M.T.B. 16 1500/28 Bray. 1530/28 H.M.S. SABRE and other ships Dunkirk Harbour. 1630/29 H.M.S. BIDEFORD Dunkirk Roads. 1700/29 H.M.S. EXPRESS Dunkirk Roads. 1700/29 H.M.S. MOSQUITO Bray. 1900/29 S.S. LEVENWOOD (Store ship} Bray. S.S. LEVENWOOD ( - do 1210/31 Bray. 1220/31 H.M. Skoot AMAZONE Dunkirk Roads. 1440/31 H.M.S. HEBE La Panne. 1700/31 af H.M.S. SCIMITAR and other ships Bray. 1700/31 S.S. LADY OF MAN (Trassport) Dunkirk Roads. 1700/31 nd H.M.Y. ARONIA La Panne. 1830/31 H.M.S. WHITSHED Dunkirk Roads. 1930/31 H.M.S. SALTASH Bray. 2000/31 S.S. NEPHRITE (Store ship) On Route X. 2030/31 H.M.Y. GRIVE Dunkirk Roads. 2030/31 H.M.Y. ARONIA Dunkirk Harbour. 0500/1 H.M.S. IVANHOE La Panne. 0530/1 is H.M.S. LYDD Bray. 0600/1 H.M.S. HARVESTER Dunkirk Harbour. 0600/1 H.M.S. HARVESTER and other ships Dunkirk Roads. 0610/1 H.M.Ships CODRINGTON, 3 HARVESTER and others Off Gravelines. 0750/1 S H.M.S. SKIPJACK La Panne. 0900/1 H.M.S. MALLARD On Route X. 1015/1 H.M.S. CALCUTTA Between W and Y Buoys. 1020/1 H.M.P. M/S MEDWAY QUEEN West of Dunkirk. 1600/1 H.M.Y. ALOUETTE Off Gravelines. 1700/1 H.M.Y. CRISTOBEL II and other ships La Panne. 1730/1. H.M.S. WORCESTER Dunkirk Roads. 2000/1 TOTAL: 35 enemy aircraft definitely destroyed by ships' gun fire between 0300/27 and 2000/1. ery In addition over the same period 21 others were heavily damaged by ships' fire (and seen in distress but NOT seen to crash definitely) of H.M. Ships HARVESTI IVANHOE, VIVACIOUS, WINCHELSEA, WOLFHOUND, SABRE, LOCUST, FITZROY, LYDD, MALLARD, MOSQUITO, WOLSEY, EXPRESS, JAGUAR, GLEN AVON, ORIOLE, H.N.Y. ARONIA, as Storeship NEPHRITE and French M.T.B.24. )p] Note: On 30th May flying conditions were bad and few enemy aircraft operated. After the 1st June operations proceeded only between dusk and day. i	Amazone Aronia Bideford Błyskawica Calcutta Dawn Fitzroy Glen Avon Gravelines Grive Hebe Ivanhoe Jaguar Levenwood Lydd Mallard Montrose Mosquito Nephrite Queen Sabre Skipjack Vivacious Whitshed Wolsey Day Few May Roads West
607	Log in to enlarge	Page 10 Operation "DYNAMO" - Recommendations of Personnel - List 'B' YACHTS. H.M.Y. ALQUETTE. Rating. Engineman Arthur E. Nessling, H.O., LT/JX.1050. H.M.Y. AMULREE. Officer. Sub.Lieutenant Graham Phineas Probert, R.N.V.R. H.M.Y. ARONIA. Commanding Officer. Lieutenant John Stanley Roe, R.N.V.R. Officer. Sub. Lieutenant John Gwyn Llewellyn, R.N.V.R. Ratings. Coxswain F. Thompson, R.N.P.S., LT/JX.190018. R. Matthews, R.N.A.S., LT/JX.189930. Engineman H. Tople, R.N.P.S., LT/KX.107573. H.M.Y. CALETA. Officer. Sub.Lieutenant James Forsyth Dunning, R.N.V.R. H.M.Y. CHRISTOBEL II. Ratings. Seaman C. G. Dunkey, H.O.P.S. Engineman J. W. Damerell, H.O.P.S. W/KY.105230 H.M.Y. GLALA. Officer. Sub.Lieutenant John Alexander Don, R.N.V.R.	Amulree Aronia Caleta Glala Alexander Don Dunning Graham Llewellyn Matthews Page Probert Roe Thompson
714	Log in to enlarge	Page 3. OF SHIPS WHICH TOOK PART IN OPERATION "DYNAMO" - 26TH MAY - 4TH JUNE, 1940 PART I - BRITISH SHIPS (continued) PORTSMOUTH A/P YACHTS AHOLA CARYANDA NONETA ANLAH EILA II SERIOLA ANKH LAHLOO THELE BOUNTY MASAYRU MISCELLANEOUS H.M. SHIPS (small craft) A.L.C. 5 GREY MIST (Dan-laying A.L.C. 15 Vessel) - A.L.C. 16 # GRIVE (F.A.A. Yacht) A.L.C. 17 KINDRED STAR (Drifter) ALOUETTE II # KING ORRY (Armed Boarding (Echo Sounding Yacht) Vessel) # AMULREE (Harbour Defence LLANTHONY (Examination Patrol Craft) Service Vessel) ARONIA (Yacht) LORMONT (Armed Boarding BEN AND LUCY (Drifter) Vessel) BLUEBIRD (M.B.) MONARDA (Drifter) BYSTANDER MONA'S ISLE (Armed Boarding (Echo Sounding Yacht) Vessel) CALETA (Harbour Defence ST. OLAVES (Rescue Tug) Patrol Craft) TARRET (A/S Yacht) CHRYSTOBEL II (Harbour THRIFTY (Drifter) Defence Patrol Craft ) V. 4 ("Vernon' s" pinnace) "DOLPHIN'S" MOTOR-BOAT VELIA (Armed Trawler) EVELYN ROSE Trawler) VERNON I "EXCELLENT'S" A/A MOTOR-BOAT VIVIANA (A/S Trawler) GAVA (Trawler) Ambleve. Escaut. transferred GLALA (Harbour Defence Patrol Meuse. from Craft) Sambre. Semoise. page 9. yser. DUTCH SKOOTS (Commissioned with Naval Crews) ABEL TASMAN DOGGERSBANK PACIFIC PASCHOLL AEGIR FREDANJA PATRIA ALICE FRISCO PRINCESS JULIANA AMAZONE GORECHT REIGER ANTJE HEBE RIKA ATLANTIC HILDA RUJA BART HONDSRUG BORNRIF HORST (Abandoned) SAN ANTONIO SURSUM CORDA BRANDARIS JAVA TILLY CARIBIA JUTLAND TINY DELTA KAAPFALGA TUNG DEMOK I LENA TWENTE DENEB ORANJE VREDE DESPATCH II ORANGE YREESWIJH ZEUS (Continued) # Sunk	A.L.C. 15 A.L.C. 16 A.L.C. 17 A.L.C. 5 Abel Tasman Aegir Ahola Alice Alouette II Amazone Ambleve Amulree Ankh Anlah Antje Aronia Atlantic Bart Bluebird Boat Bornrif Bounty Brandaris Bystander Caleta Caribia Caryanda Delta Deneb Despatch II Doggersbank Dolphin Drifter Eila II Escaut Evelyn Rose Excellent's Fredanja Frisco Gava Glala Gorecht Grey Mist Grive Hebe Hilda Hondsrug Horst Java Jutland KaapFalga Kindred Star Lahloo Lena Llanthony Lormont Meuse Mona's Isle Monarda Noneta Oranje Pacific Pascholl Patria Princess Reiger Rika Rose Ruja Sambre San Antonio Seriola Sursum Corda Tarret Thele Thrifty Tilly Tiny Twente Velia Vernon Vernon I Vrede Zeus Crews King May Page Rose
889	Log in to enlarge	Page 10. Operation "DYNAMO" - Recommendation of Personnel - List 'B' YACHTS. H.M.Y. ALQUETTE. Rating, Engineman Arthur E. Nessling, H.O., LT/JX.1050. H.M.Y. AMULREE. Officer. Sub.Lieutenant Graham Phineas Probert, R.N.V.R. H.M.Y. ARONIA. Commanding Officer. Lieutenant John Stanley Roe, R.N.V.R. Officer. Sub.Lieutenant John Gwyn Llewellyn, R.N.V.R. Ratings. Coxswain F. Thompson, R.N.P.S., LT/JX.190018. R. Matthews, R.N.A.S., LT/JX,189930. Engineman H. Tople, R.N.P.S., LT/KX.107573. H.M.Y. CALETA. Officer. Sub. Lieutenant James Forsyth Dunning, R.N.V.R. H.M.Y. CHRISTOBEL II. Ratings. Seaman C. G. Dunkey, H.O.P.S. Engineman J. W. Damerell, H.O.P.S. W/KY.105230 H.M.Y. GLALA. Officer. Sub,Lieutenant John Alexander Don, R.N.V.R.	Amulree Aronia Caleta Glala Alexander Don Dunning Graham Llewellyn Matthews Page Probert Roe Thompson