TNA / MT 40 66

TNA MT 40 66

Collection details

TNA MT 40 66

Ministry of Transport records containing a Dynamo vessel list and reports from masters and crews engaged in the evacuation, covering 1940–1947.

Holding archive: TNA
Collection reference: MT 40 66

View the archive catalogue entry ↗

Source: The National Archives, Kew, MT 40/66. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.

Showing only document page 31. Show all matching pages ×

1 matching pages. OCR may contain transcription errors.

List page 1 of 1 Showing document pages 31–31 of this collection

A note about image and OCR quality

Every reasonable effort has been made to present these document images as flat, straight and accurately cropped as possible. Historical records can be difficult to photograph or scan because of tight bindings, deep gutters, page curvature, folds, creases, fragile paper, uneven edges, shadows, glare, skewed pages, fading, stains, tears, attachments and restrictions on how a document may be handled. These conditions can distort parts of an image and consequently affect the OCR transcription.

Considerable post-production work has been undertaken to crop, align, flatten and enhance the images where practicable, but the results represent our best effort rather than exact facsimiles. Text showing through from the reverse of a page, printed backgrounds, stamps, ruled lines, marks and text visible from neighbouring pages may confuse or spoil OCR output. Handwriting is not reliably recognised and, in most places, may be missing, incomplete or incorrectly transcribed. Always check the page image and, where accuracy matters, consult the original record held by the identified archive.

OCR is not a transcription. It is machine-generated text used to create research tags and help locate names and references within the source images; it should not be read as a verified narrative.

Page	Image	OCR text	OCR tags
31	Log in to enlarge	77 25th August1940. TM.4324/40. Dear Guttery, I am very sorry that your letter T.M. 4324/40 has not yet been answered. You will remember that it me futtery's signature invited the views of the Admiralty on a suggestion that the owners of boats which helped in the withdrawal from Dunkirk should be authorised to inscribe e Minister of Shipping on their boats the words "Dunkirk 1940." icial letter dated 10th This suggestion became part of a big to state,, for the informati paper in which I had to submit a large 3 of the Admiralty, that number of proposals for commemorating E is that owners of merch Dunkirk, and this had to go to five n the Dunkirk operatio members of the Board including the First they so desire, to dis Sea Lord and First Lord. ook part in the operat should be done at the It has now come back to me and take the form of an the decision is that no special recognition "Dunkirk 1940". for Dunkirk should be approved at present, at any rate, beyond the decorations and into effect by means awards which have already been published. would then be for the This is in general; in particular there wish to take advantage are the following objections to the Department for necessary inscription proposal, namely that iculars of the servic E. W. Guttery, Esq., Ministry of Shipping nowever, Mr. Cross would Berkeley Square, edships already have in W.1. lines, or if not wheth tlined above.	No matches

Raw OCR

Unformatted machine-generated OCR for document page 31.

77
25th August1940.
TM.4324/40.
Dear Guttery,
I am very sorry that your
letter T.M. 4324/40 has not yet been
answered. You will remember that it
me futtery's signature
invited the views of the Admiralty on
a suggestion that the owners of boats
which helped in the withdrawal from
Dunkirk should be authorised to inscribe
e Minister of Shipping
on their boats the words "Dunkirk 1940."
icial letter dated 10th
This suggestion became part of a big
to state, , for the informati
paper in which I had to submit a large
3 of the Admiralty, that
number of proposals for commemorating
E
is that owners of merch
Dunkirk, and this had to go to five
n the Dunkirk operatio
members of the Board including the First
they so desire, to dis
Sea Lord and First Lord.
ook part in the operat
should be done at the
It has now come back to me and
take the form of an
the decision is that no special recognition
"Dunkirk 1940".
for Dunkirk should be approved at present,
at any rate, beyond the decorations and
into effect by means
awards which have already been published.
would then be for the
This is in general; in particular there
wish to take advantage
are the following objections to the
Department for necessary
inscription proposal, namely that
iculars of the servic
E. W. Guttery, Esq.,
Ministry of Shipping
nowever, Mr. Cross would
Berkeley Square,
edships already have in
W.1.
lines, or if not wheth
tlined above.