TNA ADM 334 83

Collection details

TNA ADM 334 83

Little Ships Club correspondence and personal accounts relating to the Dunkirk evacuation, covering 1940–1941.

Holding archive: TNA
Collection reference: ADM 334 83

View the archive catalogue entry ↗

Source: The National Archives, Kew, ADM 334/83. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.

Showing only document page 19. Show all matching pages ×

1 matching pages. OCR may contain transcription errors.

List page 1 of 1 Showing document pages 19–19 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
19	Log in to enlarge	3 Armed to the teeth we now both clambered ashore and found the quay piled high with equipment of every description. Rifles, Bren guns, petrol, bicycles, ammunition, kitbags, coats, belts, gas masks, in fact every conceivable variety of gear. Aircraft were flying low over us and we felt no inclination to delay and examine some of the stuff. Alongside the same quay & nearer the town was the transport H.M.S. King Orry, whom we hailed. The O.O.W. was helpful and told us that the quay was broken in a second place shoreward of him and he believed there were no officers to be seen there. On the strengthlof that I decided to remain alongside where we were until the first streak of dawn when one ship would move further up if possible & I would make another attempt to see Capt. T. The time was now about 2 a.m. Soon after we returned aboard there was some shouting up the quay and King Orry who had been badly damaged by near-misses proceeded astern & disappeared out through the harbour entrance. She was one of the Isle of Man packets in peace time. Things now were a little quieter and in preparation for an arduous day I decided to take a short rest. Hardly had I sat down and put my feet on the wardroom table, hopefully closing my eyes, when I was awakened - or rather disturbed - by the announcement that people could by heard calling for help, apparently just off the harbour mouth. Both ships immediately slipped & sailed in the direction from which the shouts came, and as they got louded we could faintly discern part of. the funnel & foremast of King Orry. Both ships launched their boats & together rescued 14 of her crew including the Captain, who despite his awful experiences & having been the last man to get aboard the boat, stepped aboard the Lord Grey with a cheery "Good evening, thanks. Drenched in oil & shivering with cold the survivors were suffering from shock, & we dosed them all with rum & changed their clothes for s/o/ 8/10 1156 211 6/4	Boat Dawn Evening Lord Grey Coats Day De King Last Little

Raw OCR

Unformatted machine-generated OCR for document page 19.

3
Armed to the teeth we now both clambered ashore and found the quay
piled high with equipment of every description. Rifles, Bren guns,
petrol, bicycles, ammunition, kitbags, coats, belts, gas masks, in
fact every conceivable variety of gear. Aircraft were flying low over
us and we felt no inclination to delay and examine some of the stuff.
Alongside the same quay & nearer the town was the transport H.M.S.
King Orry, whom we hailed. The O.O.W. was helpful and told us that the
quay was broken in a second place shoreward of him and he believed
there were no officers to be seen there. On the strengthlof that I de-
cided to remain alongside where we were until the first streak of
dawn when one ship would move further up if possible & I would make
another attempt to see Capt. T. The time was now about 2 a.m.
Soon after we returned aboard there was some shouting up the quay and
King Orry who had been badly damaged by near-misses proceeded astern
& disappeared out through the harbour entrance. She was one of the
Isle of Man packets in peace time.
Things now were a little quieter and in preparation for an arduous
day I decided to take a short rest. Hardly had I sat down and put my
feet on the wardroom table, hopefully closing my eyes, when I was awa-
kened - or rather disturbed - by the announcement that people could by
heard calling for help, apparently just off the harbour mouth. Both
ships immediately slipped & sailed in the direction from which the
shouts came, and as they got louded we could faintly discern part of.
the funnel & foremast of King Orry. Both ships launched their boats &
together rescued 14 of her crew including the Captain, who despite his
awful experiences & having been the last man to get aboard the boat,
stepped aboard the Lord Grey with a cheery "Good evening, thanks.
Drenched in oil & shivering with cold the survivors were suffering
from shock, & we dosed them all with rum & changed their clothes for
s/o/
8/10
1156
211
6/4