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DEPARTMENT
TELEGRAPHIC ADDRESS, "ARDIA". LONDON.
nede
CODES: SCOTT, BENTLEY, MARCONI & BOE.
TELEPHONE SERVICE, AVENUE 4650 (7 LINES) TRUNK 67.
THE
T.M.6213/40/STA6
121, Leadenhall Street,
17th August 40
London.E.C.3.
The
166
Gentlemon,
15th August, 1940.
2.
I have to acknowledge the receipt of
your letter of the 15th instant and to thank
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13/40/S.T.A.6.
you for the copy of the report of the Master
of the S.S. "KOHISTAN" regarding his
of the 7th August,
experiences at Calais.
13th August, which
has written to us
I am, Gentlemen,
ip at Calais.
Your obedient Servant,
y,
C.
STRICK & CO. LIMITED.
(Sgd.) SELL B, E. BELLAMY,
Yahan
Director of Sea Transport.
Frank C. Strick & Co. ,Ltd.,
117-121 Leadenhall Street,
E.C.3.
to come aboard. About
ituation was rapidly
rbour, on starboard
t out of action, and
Jed by shelling.
After consultation with Brigadier General Griffin,
who said more troops were to come and in the circumstances
would I wait. I decided to do so until 11 a.m. By that
time all the troops to be evacuated were aboard - over 4000
approximately, including 25 wounded - I proceeded to leave.
As the vessel got clear of the breakwater a shore
battery commenced firing and, although shells were bursting
extremely close, vessel was not hit. I proceeded to Dover.
When leaving Calais, men of the Rifle Brigade were
lined up alongside the station and waved and cheered us,
ships returned to Dover arriving as it seemed at
and 5 the
of
the
ship On and May the 27th/28th Naster applied a considerable for humber of the crew left
scort
the
was were unable supplied to sail and twenty on May soldiers 28th as she with a had Naval Lewis to crew. oil guns. fuel. Naval The vessel ratings
raft
again entered that May the night harbour, 29th the embarked vessel sailed about for 2,000 Dunkirk in dense fog,
without incident as it was troops a bad and day came for flying. back