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CONSTANCE
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WESTFIEL RODNEY NYMPH
ROAD,
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REGISTR 6 A.M.
11/1/21/11
NEW
Constant Nymph
malden 1461
little Club
T.O. 9144/STN.
in. 8/5/40
20/9/40
onfirm that my
Dunkish Operations
2ª hours' notice.
M.C. Constant Nymph
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have to get up
Dear Sir
so go to the boat.
as requested, I enclose copy of a rough diary of
ont to Isleworth
my own experiences which was made on my return to town.
2 10.00 and 11.00.
I be required as
I had given up Constant "mph" for lat but she
huoy, and my
ss, I found at the
was found later at Broadstairs, badly damaged in the
the would issue
supers tructure rgutted of everything movemble, but quite
S in the same yard.
sound in hull.
There was no widence of damage by enemy action
to think there was
go down together,
but much widence of bad handling flooting
noon so that I
When found she had no sope on her propeller&
others did not
a certain amount of petrol in her tank, and a local
inhabitant said she had been brought ova by some
to" as I felt
might at least
soldiers who had been left on the beach at Dunkirk.
rhess. Luckily
When I left her, she certainly had sope on her
ings that he
propeller mo petrol left, 20 the naval drifter had
e H111 to Islowo be
waiting for the
cirdantly dealt with her sprobably used her again, as
a
was intended- why she should have been abandoned
the Naval Contro
later on the other side in a fit condition to cross ander
is to anchor 017
her run power is beyond me.
be allowed to
io
Both British Freuch soldies had been on her since
we had found
n the 28th May
I lift her, as small items of dis carded equipment were
was not worth
found in her which rouch for one opecimen of each army
have to keep
at least.
"Coustant hymph is a 24' cabin cruiser built by Kris
chor and proceeder
Crisers hld at I alworth with Watermota engine, built 1939,
around there
collect, repert
she is on the British Register as 4.78 tons.
yours truly Babinate
near the dockyni
all present by
informed that WI
now for what
required, although 1 had been told by the
pleasant voiced man who spoke to me from the Admiralty that
it was dangerous.
Of the boats which had come down from Isleworth mine WILL
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the only one in charge of its owner so far as I know, and
that time we had rather got the point of view that there as
nothing very urgent in the wind and most of the men who had
brought boats down from up river had done so without any
previous knowledge that they would be doing so and had had n
opportunity of making arrangements with employers, etc. so
that few of them folt able to sign on for a month and voni
back to town very regretfully by train.
The opportunity of playing boats for a month with
or
seemed to me too good to miss in any case, and I had bued
e
able to warn my partners that I should be away for a bitthe
but there was same difficulty in getting signed on and IMC
toured Sheerness Dockyard interviewing mumerous people 18
late in the afternoon and by about 17.00 had formed a we was
accurate 1dea what the job was and was quite determinedo that
to be put off, so appealed to the Commodore himself visa a few
supervising the fuel and victualling of the motor be
at
the basin. Within half-an-hour of explaining to
night's