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Appendix "A".
Part II.
A.L.C.3.
A.L.C. 3 was stowed in No. 8 hold in
Clan Macalister, and was hoisted out at approximately noon. She worked the beach near Old
Dunkirk embarking British troops until the evening, then as there were no vessels left in the vicinity, set off for Dover with about twenty soldiers aboard,
Shortly after passing Dunkirk she fell in with
A.L.C. 8 and 15, and in company with them arrived at Dover at dawn, on Thursday May 30th.
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On the evening of Thursday, May 30th, the left Dover in company with A.L.C. 8 and 15, for
Dunkirk beaches arriving there at dawn, Friday,
May 31st.
She evacuated troops, (French and British), until approximately 2230 hrs, when both engines gave out due to sand in the cooling systems, A.L.C.S
was then taken in to# by 2 small merchant vessel who towed her to Ramrgate, where she arrived about
0500 hrs on Saturday June 1st.
Two civilians volunteered to assist in attending to the engines, and eventually succeeded in repairing them satisfactorily. Ash.C. 3 then preceeded to Dover, and arrived there about 1130 hrs on Saturday 1st June. On reporting at Dover they were told to hold themselves in readiness to return to Dunkirk, but later were ordered to proceed in company with A.L.C. 17 to their base in Hayling Island,
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A.L.C. 17 joined A,L,C. 5 off La Panne on this day, but as she was having constant trouble with her steering gear she returned to Dover where repairs were effected, She was the only A.I.C. sighted by A.L.C. 5 since leaving the CLAN MACALISTER,
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I (Commander Cassidi), YRS informed that large numbers of British troops were awaiting embarkation near Old Dunkirk and that there was 1
shortage of boats there. Accordingly A.L.C. 5 moved towards this town p.m. "hursday 30th ay.
5.
Being once more in the vicinity of the CLAN MACALISTER I took the opportunity to board her.
She had been abandoned after having been bombed aft, and although externally she appeared very little damaged, she was burning internally, apparently as far forward as the engine room. the ship was burning so Ciercely that the hot deck burn$
the soles of my rubber boots completely any as I
tried to approach AobaCo 4 and 18, which were still lying in their original stowage on the after deck,
Both A.L.C. appeared to have escaped damage from bombs, but No. 4 had a few holes burned in her, and presumably the bottoms of both sere likely to have suffered from the heat,
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6. deal easier there being little surf to hamper sare good the embarkation of to troops, and large numbers taken off until after dark.

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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

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engine, and A.L.C. 17 was again taken in for by the tug which had brought her over previously.
Arriving in Dover during the afternoon of
Saturday June lat. she as ordered to ambark crews of A.L.C's
15 and 8, and in company with D.L.C. 3, make for har base in Hayling Island. She reported here at 1300 on Monday
June 3rd.
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