TNA / MT 40 36 Pt 2

TNA MT 40 36 Pt 2

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TNA MT 40 36 Pt 2

A second digitised section of MT 40/36: Ministry of Transport papers on the Dynamo small-craft pool, special-service planning and claims procedure.

Holding archive: TNA
Collection reference: MT 40 36 Pt 2

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Source: The National Archives, Kew, MT 40/36 Pt 2. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.

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138	Log in to enlarge	126 boat up and returnine to in the daylight. Much the same thing happened- bombs dropped around me and the machine guns rattled overhead, but I was not so much worried about that as about keeping the engines running and I was thankful to have no more trouble with them. I did not see my original "crew" again, SO I dont know how they got on. No doubt they returned safe and sound, as I and the "Naiad Errant" did.... the job had been done. NOTE "Naiad Errant" a twin screw motor yacht of 9.12 gross tonnage (7.56 register tonnage) was built by William Osborn Limited of Littlehampton for Major and Mrs R.K.T. Nightingale and launched there in June 1939. She was registered at Littlehampton No. 167764 in 1939. In May 1940 she was lying at Clarks Wharf Sunbury on Thames when she was requisitioned by Admiralty during her owners temporary absence in Bath, and steamed down river the same night by Mr.H.C.H.Clark of Messrs Horace Clark & Son, Sunbury - on -Thames assisted by a crew composed of members of the Sunbury Auxiliary Fire Service to Ramsgate where she was handed over to Admiralty. On return from Dunkirk she was retained by Admiralty refitted at Clark's Wharf Sunbury on Thames and has since formed part of the "Mosquito Navy" engaged on coastal patrol service. Her Owner Major R.K.T.Nightingale M.C. is one of the crew of M.L. "Lady Ruth" of the Middlesex Flotilla of the Upper Thames Patrol (Home Guard) Able Seaman Samuel Palmer D.S.M is now serving on H.M.S.Jackal.	Boat Jackal Major Mosquito Naiad Errant Thames Clark May Palmer

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126
boat up and returnine to in the
daylight. Much the same thing happened- bombs dropped
around me and the machine guns rattled overhead, but I
was not so much worried about that as about keeping the
engines running and I was thankful to have no more trouble
with them.
I did not see my original "crew" again, SO I
dont know how they got on. No doubt they returned safe
and sound, as I and the "Naiad Errant" did.... the job
had been done.
NOTE
"Naiad Errant" a twin screw motor yacht of 9.12 gross
tonnage (7.56 register tonnage) was built by William
Osborn Limited of Littlehampton for Major and Mrs R.K.T.
Nightingale and launched there in June 1939. She was
registered at Littlehampton No. 167764 in 1939.
In May 1940 she was lying at Clarks Wharf Sunbury on
Thames when she was requisitioned by Admiralty during her
owners temporary absence in Bath, and steamed down river
the same night by Mr.H.C.H.Clark of Messrs Horace Clark
& Son, Sunbury - on -Thames assisted by a crew composed of
members of the Sunbury Auxiliary Fire Service to Ramsgate
where she was handed over to Admiralty.
On return from Dunkirk she was retained by Admiralty
refitted at Clark's Wharf Sunbury on Thames and has since
formed part of the "Mosquito Navy" engaged on coastal
patrol service. Her Owner Major R.K.T.Nightingale M.C.
is one of the crew of M.L. "Lady Ruth" of the Middlesex
Flotilla of the Upper Thames Patrol (Home Guard) Able Sea-
man Samuel Palmer D.S.M is now serving on H.M.S.Jackal.