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 265. Show all matching pages ×

1 matching pages. OCR may contain transcription errors.

List page 1 of 1 Showing document pages 265–265 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
265	Log in to enlarge	8/36 7,000 pads of 250 TRA930 987 8/36 7,000 pads of 250 LONDON & NORTH EASTERN RAILWAY B 1152 DEPARTMENT Jawana. attic Door 01501 DEPARTMENT To 140 STATION 193 22 SEAL OUR REFERENCE TELEPHONE YOUR REFERENCE sora visibility poor and when very near to the Zuidcoote Pass "MANXMAN" and "PARIS" ran aground on the Smal Bank and "PRAGUE" touched starboard side. Door.NJTS You "PARIS" came off immediately, but "MANXMAN" stuck for some hours. softon JIONA 610 Meeting one of H.M. Sloops, whose Captain very kindly sent a boat with и onf advice of the district and a chart marked in better detail than our awn, AO. yo I realized that it was hopeless for a ship of my draught to attempt the Pass at that state of tide and accordingly returned to the vicini ty of the Nieuport Bank Buoy and anchored to let the tide rise a few feet. "MANXMAN" joined us here a few hours later and afterwards acted in concert with us. 910 9V.SS May 29th. 0355. Got under way again and proceeded via the Pass to Dunkirk and when ordered to enter the port made fast just inside the end ENJ two of the Eastern Jetty. Embarkation started almost immediately, the Naval one 03 Beach Master realized our difficulties and loaded us up in time to return Y.S.M. through the Pass before the tide fell too much as our draught when loaded 20 with troops was estimated to be about 6". bns At 0735 the ship left Dunkirk and proceeded home by the same route, signalling Dover at 1230 the same day and received orders to proceed to Folkestone, which port was reached by 1300. Troops were disembarked and the ship coaled and watered and prepared for the next voyage. Generally speaking, as regards this voyage, the only serious difficulty encountered was a navigational one, there was plenty of enemy action but no direct attack upon the ship by air or sea. May 30th. 1200 The ship proceeded to anchorage off Folkestone, weather dense fog. GHOP SUILSIM1 a bit, as I could see our crew of the barge and also rowing off in their boat towards us. I picked them up, boat were and grew of barge "DUCHESS" that had anchored in the Roads, and then the next wave of bombers were overhead. (Continued)	Boat Duchess London Manxman Paris Prague Barge Day Dover Few May Roads Seal

Raw OCR

Unformatted machine-generated OCR for document page 265.

8/36 7,000 pads of 250
TRA930
987 8/36 7,000 pads of 250
LONDON & NORTH EASTERN RAILWAY
B 1152
DEPARTMENT
Jawana. attic
Door 01501
DEPARTMENT
To
140
STATION
193
22 SEAL
OUR REFERENCE
TELEPHONE
YOUR REFERENCE
sora
visibility poor and when very near to the Zuidcoote Pass "MANXMAN" and
"PARIS" ran aground on the Smal Bank and "PRAGUE" touched starboard side.
Door .NJTS You
"PARIS" came off immediately, but "MANXMAN" stuck for some hours.
softon JIONA 610
Meeting one of H.M. Sloops, whose Captain very kindly sent a boat with
и onf
advice of the district and a chart marked in better detail than our awn,
AO. yo
I realized that it was hopeless for a ship of my draught to attempt the
Pass at that state of tide and accordingly returned to the vicini ty of
the Nieuport Bank Buoy and anchored to let the tide rise a few feet.
"MANXMAN" joined us here a few hours later and afterwards acted in
concert with us.
910 9V.SS
May 29th. 0355. Got under way again and proceeded via the Pass to
Dunkirk and when ordered to enter the port made fast just inside the end
ENJ two
of the Eastern Jetty. Embarkation started almost immediately, the Naval
one
03
Beach Master realized our difficulties and loaded us up in time to return
Y.S.M.
through the Pass before the tide fell too much as our draught when loaded
20
with troops was estimated to be about 6".
bns
At 0735 the ship left Dunkirk and proceeded home by the same route,
signalling Dover at 1230 the same day and received orders to proceed to
Folkestone, which port was reached by 1300. Troops were disembarked
and the ship coaled and watered and prepared for the next voyage.
Generally speaking, as regards this voyage, the only serious difficulty
encountered was a navigational one, there was plenty of enemy action but
no direct attack upon the ship by air or sea.
May 30th. 1200 The ship proceeded to anchorage off Folkestone, weather
dense fog.
GHOP
SUILSIM1
a bit, as I could see our crew of the barge and also
rowing off in their boat towards us. I picked them up, boat
were and grew of barge "DUCHESS" that had anchored in the Roads, and then the
next wave of bombers were overhead.
(Continued)