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The Dividor ysea Transp
12/11/21
1940.
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mizzen set, and narbour motor. about Outside 3.0.p.m. on May
setting the on heavy a fresh Mainsail wind, and so the Jib for Naval & good Ratings run got down. busy we in were assisting
was overhead, preparing keep ship going all night, when we heard 30th planes and I
We were making to quite a good headway by the evening of
still favoured so we stopped the Motor and relied on our Sails, many while wj
close us. But many times that night planes came in quit
with occasionally gunfire was heard, and planes above us. were So we cont,
range. As daylight broke we could see where we and
Sails to near Dover, and to get quickly by there seemed to b
motive, when it seemed just for the purpose the wind failed us, SQ
and contrary wind.
lowered Sails. The Motor was our only chance now in this strong
So with the assistance of the Seamen, I tried starting, but fou
she was cold, and that the cold paraffin had given me a wet plug.
had to re-start on petrol and change a plug. I had taken some time
to localise our difficulty and to remedy it, that I felt very relieved
when she started, as without power, we might very well have been blown
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