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COMMODDRE
Sas Bodicia taken
CAVERSHAM
no
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EMPRESS
an
A. CROUCH
QUEEN OF ENGLAND
ches for Hire
Launches for Hire
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LAUNCH PROPRIETOR
"CAVERSHAM"
"EMPRESS"
EN OF ENGLAND"
78, Bridge Road,
"ECLYPSE"
ness the then proce
Hammersmith, W.6.
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20 MUNDEN STREET
the mght as M. S Tilly of
WEST KENSINGTON. W14
saved by one
SIR
thand by ew Dent back
I wish to forward to you, the fullest in formation egarding the part played by my fathers the
Sas abandoned te Capt a Grauch motor Lauchers in the evacuation by M.S. "Lilly"
L Dankisk. I myself voluntessed to ga over an aved an a the Empress which as you know I have last I
a t of repairs of Shipping also last the 2 wen of England, and the Caversham ik with the me back badly damaged, when 9 got to Sheerness ig about 200 harbour with the Empress, they asked far three
Pias they volunteers for m2s Smith fast launch the Queen BoadicesTI
acking best of
6apt. g Whittaker, 65 Dauglas Rd Kingston an Hames
E ngineer g Reves of 28 E land R Battersea and msself took her ta Punkisk an several Yrips opportunity of making arrangements with employers, DU CLEASE etc. so
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that few of them felt able to sign on for a month and wont back to town very regretfully by train.
The opportunity of playing boats for a month with the seemed to me too good to miss in any case, and I had bue e
able to warn my partners that I should be away for a bith but there was same difficulty in getting signed on and Tic toured Sheerness Dockyard interviewing mumerous people late in the afternoon and by about 17.00 had formed a IV was accurate idea what the job was and was quite determined that to be put off, so appealed to the Commodore himself visa few supervising the fuel and victualling of the motor be it the basin. Within half-an-hour of explaining to night's

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The Queen the second time,
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The load was orgain put on the Titly e Goloille raite, O.B.E.
md back again we went, Part hoat again, the ution other loats being about two hundred yards ahread.
On gering in for the third bine,a
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shell birst in between the Part bout of them, and us, that we turned back, to go out, but the signaler d
iber, 1940.
we had on board, and had only been "act" for about rix week, and never been under fine, said Wave me got to go in again" so we went in
N.6.B.
We passed the others going int of for their last journey and then a voice houled us from the docks, we Perided up again. and also
, towed a life loat full of solides as well, there, as tion's
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we couldn't find the "Tilly" we put an loand sgate
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the a trawles, which was truing another, and
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i that in tum was touring two afeboats, one runk in
10.
and the other with suilors in. We didn't know es so our coune home, so we also made fast, soon we saw another loat coming
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up behind us, it was the "Renoun, and yelling that they had engine trouble they made fast to
Enclosure
RECEIVED
25 SEPP.M
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Secreta impossible the on account of the draft of the Life-boat to do any on the Dunkirk Sands full of water, and and other as vessels it was more, Life-boat set if for Margate. The Life-boat's activities were close to Neiuport (?) and on the homeward journey
4g me em,