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I attach a schedule showing vessels with which this
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Section was concerned, taken up for the "Evacuation of Personnel"
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from "Dunkirk".
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Early on May 27th we were asked to find a number of small
craft, vessels to be mustered at Sheerness for a special
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requirement. D.S.V.P. supplied a list of suitable vessels but
it was soon ascertained that a great number of these were not
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fit and ready for service, consequently I attended a meeting at
the Admiralty, when it was agreed that Admiral Preston should
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send some of his Officers to the various boatyards covering the
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area from Teddington to Burnham and Brightlingsea to inspect
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and send all vessels fit to Sheerness immediately and arrange
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regarding runner crews, oil fuel etc. The Officers were each
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given an authority, signed by Admiral Preston, to order the
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vessels away; Mr. Edwards concurred with this. During the
ases hampton vessels to, to which, the
course of the Monday this Section arranged for and got 40 vessel
to Sheerness by Monday evening.
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It has been an enormous task, resulting from the
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indiscriminate taking up of vessels without formal requisition,
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to get the exact picture setting out the present situation.
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Innumerable lists, and a deal of correspondence, from every port
assembly
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and person concerned, boatyards included, were scrutinised in
and arrived
order to obtain and collate all the information to enable a
vessels were
complete and comprehensive list to be drawn up. This entailed
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a great deal of checking, cross-checking and investigation, and,
to
believe
that
a large amount of correspondence with owners has often been
their vessels
necessary to clarify the position. A number of vessels were not
A few have,
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shown on any list, but were simply taken, and consequently our
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only source of information has been from the owners themselves
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In order to get as much information as possible a list of
in this connection
the vessels which were "reported lost" and whose whereabouts
subsequent to Dunkirk were unknown (see copy attached) was
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circulated to the C. in C. Nore, C. in C. Portsmouth, and
V.A. Dover. Copies were sent to the various Naval Officer
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