TNA ADM 199 795

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TNA ADM 199 795

Admiralty reports on naval operations off the Dutch, Belgian and French coasts during 1940.

Holding archive: TNA
Collection reference: ADM 199 795

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Source: The National Archives, Kew, ADM 199/795. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.

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156	Log in to enlarge	Name of Vessel Date Cause and Position Remarks PRINCESS LILY OWNER 31/5/40 REMARKS Unknown LOST approx. OUR BOYS (Boat) " 11 RENOWN (Cockle Boat) " Lifebont 11 Dutah Mined and sunk with " " Duton all hands. ROBERTA Unknown " ROSABELLE " Dutch " ST. PATRICK " Dutch ASSUMED LOST " SANTOSY " Dutch LOST 11 " SARAH & EMILY " 11 " SEA FALCON (Boat) 11 Dutch Abandoned - Dunkirk " SHAMROCK 11 Dutch " " 17 SKYLARK 3. (SM281) " Dutch 11 Dutch Unknown 19 SCENESHIFTER 11 " SONIA " " " SKYLARK 2. " Duton " 11 SKYLARK 3. 11 Dutals " " SOUTHERN QUEEN 11 Dutan " " STONEHAVEN " " " SUNSHINE " Dutch " " SUE SUE (Rowboat) " Dutor 11 11 THETIS If Lost while being towed " from Dunkirk TRITON 11 Unknown " TWO RIVERS " " If VIEWFINDER " " 11 VIKING 3. " " 12 VANITEE 11 " " WARRIOR " Abandoned off Dunkirk " WAVE QUEEN " Unknown 11 COMMODORE " " 11 WESTERLEY " On fire and abandoned - If Dunkirk GRACE DARLING If Unknown ASSUMED LOST QUEEN OF ENGLAND " Sunk in collision with LOST S.S. TILLY. MARY SPEARING " Unknown " " " " CANVEY QUEEN " HAZARD Did not return from Dunkirk PREVIOUSLY MISS JOSEPHONE I. 11 Do. REQUISITIONED If " MOSS ROSE AND ON NAVAL " 11 SERVICE BUT PELLAG 2. 11 If UTILISED FOR SEAMEW "DYNAMO".	Boat Canvey Queen Commodore England Falcon Grace Grace Darling Hazard Lily Mary Mary Spearing Moss Rose Our Boys Princess Princess Lily Queen Renown Roberta Rosabelle Rose Santosy Sceneshifter Sea Falcon Seamew Shamrock Skylark Sonia Southern Queen St. Patrick Stonehaven Sue Sue Sunshine Thetis Tilly Triton Two Rivers Vanitee Viewfinder Viking Warrior Wave Queen Westerley Patrick Rose
174	Log in to enlarge	VESSEDNHAMER OWNERS REMARKS SKYLARK VI Bolsons Co. SKYLARK IX T.98. Returned to Owners. -do- SKYLARK X Mr. Jackson T.98. Returned to Owners 17.6. SKYLARK Returned to owner. eddas T.B. Brookman Returned to Owners. SMOLT SMILING THROUGH H. Gartridge: OJA.,W. Williams T.98. Returned to Owners 5.6.40.10 II SMUGGLER T.98. Re-allocated to A.P.S. G.D. Leyte SNOW BUNTING Returned to owner. Mr. Wray SONIA Re-allocated A.P.S. Loft, West Ltd. No report received from List of atenwo 03 Missing Vessels. SOUTHERN QUEEN C.H. Harvey No information of return from PL.17 Dunkirk T.98. SOUTH RAY P. Shore Returned to owner. SPINAWAY B. Figg T.98. Returned to owner 19.6. SPINDRIFT 20 Hewitt Returned to owner. STARFISH T. Brown T.98. Returned to owner 5.6.40. STONEHAVEN W.H. Stonehouse T.98. No report received from List .begemed of Missing Vessels. SUMMER MAID F.M. Brown A.P.S. SUNDOWNER Cdr.C.H. Lightoller Re-allocated to A.P.S. SUNSHINE R.13) J. Berrion No information of return from Dunkirk. SURREY s.B.T. Thomas Returned to owner. SYLVIA Toughs A.P.Sallos 011.8 SOUTHEND BRITANNIA Southend III 05 Jon Britannia Co. Returned to owners. SUFFOLK'S ROSE Jubilee Fishing Co. Re-allocated to Special Admiralty of Service (6A). SEA AIR.03 Jon O.H. Anderson Prepared for Dynamo but did not go. SKIPJACK W.H. Ringer Damaged. Returned to owner. SOUTHERN QUEEN C. Mockridge & Exrs. of E. Saunders Returned to owner. 230 benobuedA florish.H.D TANKERTON TOWERS S. Howden Returned to owner. TARPON Mrs. Spragge T.98. Returned to owners. THARK c/o Toughs Taken by owners. THETIS H.F. Eaton Lost while being towed from Dunkirk. THE ANGLER Mr. Colding Returned -sunsuitable. THELMA J.T. Phelps Returned to owner prepared did not go. THURN Schofield A.P.S. THYME Ramsgate Diesel Released 1.6.40 Allocated to Special Trawlers Admiralty Service. 6A. THREE BROTHERS C.F. Grant Returned 3.6.40. TIGRIS ONE H. Hastings Damaged. Returned to owner. TOM HILL T. Hill Re-allocated Special Admiralty Service to (6A) TRILLENE Dr. E. Williams T.98. Returned to owner 19.6. TRITON OJ W.D. Wills T.98. No report received to List of Missing Vessels. TWO SISTERS R. Hayes T.98. Returned to owner. TWO RIVERS F.E. Fothergill No report received from List of Missing Vessels. TORTOISE Held at Tough Bros. Owner unknown. TREASURE S. Rowden Not required. TONY LN.40 T. Neilson Returned to owner.	Angler Britannia Queen Rose Sea Air Skipjack Skylark Skylark IX Skylark VI Skylark X Smiling Through Smolt Smuggler Snow Bunting Sonia South Ray Southend Britannia Southern Queen Spinaway Spindrift Starfish Stonehaven Summer Maid Sundowner Sunshine Surrey Tankerton Towers Tarpon Thark The Angler Thelma Thetis Thurn Tony Tortoise Treasure Trillene Triton Two Rivers Two Sisters Anderson Bros Brown Fothergill Harvey Hastings Hewitt Hill Lightoller Neilson Ray Rose Saunders Schofield Snow Thomas Towers West Williams
521	Log in to enlarge	Thursday 30th May. 325 May Passenger transport KING ORRY which had been damaged by a near miss p.m. 29th May, still alongaide the Pier at midnight. I saw the Captain and told him he must go and gave him the alternative of beaching himself on the Eastern beach if his ship was not searorthy, or of proceeding without troops to England = the escort of a trawler. At 0230 he was observed endeavouring to clear the harbour. It was subsequently found out that he sunk about 4 cables outside the entrance. At 0039/30 made the following signal to Dover:- "There is a shortage of ships and boats. I have no destroyers". There were no air attacks in the early morning Later when Ships seganta arrive and all was quiet., In view of the heavy target presented by a number of ships being alongaide the Hole at one time, destroyers were ordered alongside the Pier one at a time. Arrival of the first destroyer was a signal for an attack by one bomber. Subsequently, however, the bright sunshine of yesterday gave way so nist and 10 was possible to speed up embarkation without undue risk. 0755 following signal was made:- drifters arrived. No water 02 food yet provided on "Great opportunity missed during night when only three Dunkin's beach for large number of troops. Sporadie bombing". Attbout 0800 store ship arrived with provisions but no water. This caused BO such congestion on the Pier that in view of the urgent about half need Thatoad to send had off beer every unloaded possible man, unloading was, after should Has, abandoned and the store ship filled with troops. A certain amount of water was obtained from destroyers. One personnel ship arrived about 0920, the first one Reyal since the previous day. Other ships (three drifters) filled shortly	England Sunshine Beer Day Dover King May
637	Log in to enlarge	443 Ten minutes more and the first convoy is ready for the sea - manned, victualled and fuelled - equipped in fact with all but arms. Only later, when the full peril of their task was realised and returning troops had filled the depots with sandfouled small arms, were weapons available for the crews' protection. The first convoys sailed gaily into the inferno of Dunkirk beaches without SO much as & pistol between them. Still the boats arrived and still the officers and men flowed into the port; "T.124's" now for the most part. Sturdy fishermen, lightermen and merchant seamen. Now, too, came in increasing numbers the civilian volunteers who played so fine a part in the operation. In the very first flotilla to leave was one black motor launch, the "Advance", manned entirely by three bearded civilian yachtsmen. This boat and its crew stayed with the writer in convoy through the whole of the first journey across, and after the first murderous machine gun attack from the air three cheerful bearded grinning faces appeared above the fore cabin roof and three pairs of hands were clasped and shaken overhead as a signal that allwas well; only the "Jolly Roger" was lacking to complete that picture. These men wore no uniform, were born on no ship's books but took the graver risks which attend civilians engaged in military operations as undisturbed as they would take a choppy sea on a week-end cruise. The journey across, perhaps, afforded the individual his opportunity of assessing the magnitude of the operation best which he was playing his part. Beautiful yachting weather in the small craft could never have made the crossing otherwise), (half hardly a chop on the water; the whole vista bathed endless in summer sunshine; and, across the expanse of sea, an From horizon ahead to horizon of laden ships. stream spanning the whole scene from coast to coast, unloading endless astern, their human freight and hastily returning for more; an 3	Advance Boat Sunshine Black Crews