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APPENDIX "A" PART II
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A.L.C. 17.
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A.L.C. 17 was the fourth boat to be hoisted out,
and followed A.L.C. 5 up the coast towards Braye. On
approaching the beach she mas promptly boarded by a crowd
of French soldiers, who so overload d the boat that she grounded.
On the falling tide she was soon left high and dry, and
remained stranded for some three hours.
In the meantime the Coxswain of A.L.C. 17 procured the
assistance of some British troops, who with fixed bayonets,
drove off the French when these again attempted to rush the
boat as the tide rose. These British troops, together with
a few French, were taken off to a British destroyer shere the
British only were disembarked. H A.4.C. 17 was ordered to
take the French to a nearby reasel, on the my she ma heavily
bombed and machine gurned from the air.
As a result of this attack, the boat became partially
flooded, so much 30 that the engines stopped. A.L.C. 17
then managed to get alongside a tug, where they baled out
their boat, and got the engines running again. She continued
embarking British troops from the vicinity of La Panne for the
remainder of the day, but towards evening had to casse
operations due to a defect in the port rudder; this 183
eventually rectified alongaide, and with the assistance of,
H.M.S. Shikari.
A.L.C. 17 continued working all night, but finally
her engines were stopped by sand in the circulating mater systems.
On Thursday morning May 30th., ahe was taken in tow : a drifter
and towed to Dover, arriving there about 2200. Engines were
repaired, and on Friday A.L.C. 17 - towed over to Dunicirk by
a tug. A few trips only were carried out, embarking British
troops from the viainity of Old Dubkirk, when sand stopped one