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SHIPS SUNK OR LOST
AIR
E-BOATS
MINES
ATTACKS
OR S/MS
SHORE
GUNS
51
31
Destroyers
1
1²
Gunboats
5
Minesweepers Armed boarding vessels
1
65
2
Trawlers
51
Special Service vessels
1
1³
2
Drifters
1
1
Yachts
1
Skoots
Personnel vessels
6
1
14
Hospital carriers
1
Seaplane tender
1
2
Tugs
Cockle Bawley boat
1
Total
32
5
8
4
SHIPS DAMAGED AND PUT OUT OF ACTION
AIR
E-BOATS
MINES
ATTACKS
OR S/MS
SHORE
GUNS
Destroyers
8
16
Sloops
1
Minesweepers
2
Trawlers
1
Personnel vessels
2
2
Hospital carriers
2
1
Total
15
1
1
3
I Including 1 French
2 French. Driven on to Allied minefield where she struck a mine.
3
Driven on to Allied minefield where she struck a mine.
4 Damaged and had to be abandoned.
$ Including 3 French.
6 French.
Something must now be said of the Army movements.
The active operations of the British Expeditionary Force in northern France
and Belgium began on 10th May, 1940, when Germany invaded the Low
Countries. to The first phase of these operations (see Plan 1) was the advance
May of (see Plan 2), the withdrawal from the Dyle to the River Escaut, the defence
the River Dyle, from 10th-16th May ; the second-phase, from 17th-26th
and the Belgian frontier, and of the southern and western flanks and the third
barkation final phase was the withdrawal into the Dunkirk perimeter and the em-
of the B.E.F., from 26th May - 4th June.
quence Navy on events which resulted in the desperate may discerned, task first, on the Royal
In the of following day-by-day account be the rapid se-
measures 26th the imposed naval
events THE military situation. the sudden That onrush situation of military
with an ever-chang 1 supreme difficulty of co-ordinating it is not
the course of naval only dispositions. SO far as
"Lord Gort's Second Despatch, para. 1.
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