TNA / MT 40 66

TNA MT 40 66

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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

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

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17	Log in to enlarge	Page 4. LIST OF SHIPS WHICH TOOK PART IN OPERATION "DYNAMO" - 26TH MAY - 4TH JUNE, 1940. PART I - BRITISH SHIPS (contimued) PERSONNEL AND HOSPITAL SHIPS ARCHANGEL MANXMAN AUTOCARRIER MONA'S QUEEN BEN-MY-CREE NEWHAVEN BIARRITZ NEPHRITE (Store Ship) CANTERBURY NGAROMA CLAN MACALISTER NORMANIA COTE D'ARGENT } french PARIS (Hospital) COTE D'AZUR PRAGUE DINARD (Hospital) PRINCESS MAUD DORIAN ROSE (Store Ship) QUEEN OF THE CHANNEL FENELLA ROEBUCK FOAM QUEEN ROUEN ISLE OF GUERNSEY (Hospital) ROYAL DAFFODIL ISLE OF THANET (Hospital) ROYAL SOVEREIGN KILLARNEY ST. ANDREW (Hospital) KING GEORGE V ST. DAVID (Hospital) LADY OF MAN ST. HELIER LEVENWOOD (Store Ship) ST. JULIAN LOCH GARRY ST. SEIRIOL LORINA # SCOTIA MAID OF ORLEANS TYNWALD MALINES WORTHING (Hospital) MANXMAID WHITSTABLE OTHER BRITISH SHIPS ADVENTURESS BONNY BELLE AGNESS CROSS (Life-boat) BOURNEMOUTH LIFE-BOAT ALBATROSS III B.P. ONE ALOUETTE BRITANNIA ANDORA BULLFINCH ANDORA II (R.A.F. Launch) CABBY ANNE IV CANVEY QUEEN ATHOLA CAVERSHAM (M.B.) AURA CHAMOIS (Lighter) BAIL CHERFIELD BAT (Lighter) CLAUDE (Water Boat) BEE (Lighter) COMMODORE BELFAST CONSTANT NYMPH BLACK ARROW CORDELIA BLACK JAVA CORNELIA BLACKPOOL C. 9 (Tugs) BOBELI (Motor Cruiser) C. 11 BONNY HEATHER C.Y. 63 DABB II DEFENDER DHOON (Trawler) Sunk (Continued)	Adventuress Albatross Andora II Anne Archangel Athola Aura Autocarrier Bat Bee Biarritz Black Arrow Black Java Blackpool Boat Bobeli Bonny Heather Britannia Bullfinch Cabby Canterbury Canvey Queen Caversham Chamois Clan Macalister Claude Commodore Constant Nymph Cordelia Cruiser Côte d'Azur Defender Dhoon Dinard Dorian Fenella Foam Queen Isle of Guernsey Isle of Thanet Java Killarney King George King George V Levenwood Lorina Maid of Orleans Malines Manxman Nephrite Newhaven Ngaroma Normania Paris Prague Princess Princess Maud Queen Roebuck Rose Rouen Royal Daffodil Royal Sovereign Scotia St. Andrew St. Helier St. Seiriol TS King George V TSS Princess Maud TSS Scotia Tynwald Whitstable Worthing Black George King Maud May Page Rose
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161	Log in to enlarge	Date use PUBLIC alde SECURITY SEAL 8 - 6 - 40 was told the Bren gunner was hoping to get a shot at him when we closed OF up, but unless he had done this on his own bat I am sure that his superiors would not have told him to do so, as an enemy airman was much more useful STA to the authorities alive than dead. What would really have happened when nei we closed up to him is a matter of conjecture! The patrol boat signalled "Alone in the plane" as we passed on. I had an idea that the soldiers, when lying on their backs on deck, you would all fire a volley at an approaching bomber and get about a thousand now bullets into him at once - as there was heaps of ammunition on board but and the Commanding Officer objected to this, as their rifles were full of sand and rust, and would explode on board, which was very feasible. The Spitfire had just caught the bomber in the nick of time and saved us any further trouble! Before dusk we sighted the North Goodwin Light Vessel and felt at home, although navigation through the Downs channel with so many sunken wrecks and other dangers was by no means a matter to be treated with a lesser degree of caution now in the darkness and haze, and with a compass that was at least a point and a half of westerly variation, unreliable and continually swinging on account of the degaussing wires having been cut. It was nothing better than a rough guide, and not to be trusted. And so we passed on through the Downs and passed the dangerous Goodwin Sands where, if a vessel once touches and ebbs for a tide, she is doomed to stick for ever on account of the shifting sands. From pillar to post we were getting the buoys in their order, until finally to the last, and then Dover Harbour. On leaving the last buoy there was not a single object to give us any indication of Dover Harbour, or the entrances. Now, here was a problem! I wished to goodness there was an air raid on and a flare of searchlights. I would only have dropped the anchor outside the Harbour as a last resource, with so many aboard and eager to get ashore. Outside the Breakwater at Dover was the danger spot of the channel magnetic mines and bombers occasionally. I did not have long to wait for my wish to be fulfilled. A trail of tracer bullets, like rockets, and a hundred searchlights in the skye in the penumbra of which I could easily distinguish the entrances to the Harbour, and by good fortune we were just on the dot, and a turn of the ship's head put her at a proper angle for the tide, and in we went, moving slowly towards the Admiralty Pier, where we berthed at 1.10 a.m. on the 30th May, 1940., and commenced disembarking the troops. Finishing disembarkation about 5.30 a.m. we then shifted to the Outer Harbour at 10.32 a.m. and were brought in to Ferry Jetty at 5 p.m., 31st May 1940, where the degaussing wire and other repairs were carried out before the vessel again sailed for the Clyde. I herewith enclose a photo not of the "EOCHGARRY", but of a ship going through a similar ordeal of baptism. The arrows show, with respect to position, the points at which the "LOCHGARRY" got the two closest hits one over the fo'csle head, and the other by inches clear of the teak wood rail on the starboard quarter. The others were as wide off as those shown in the photograph. The value of zig-zagging a vessel under such circumstances cannot be too strongly stressed. I believe it saved us on all occasions when we were attacked. The Lewis guns are certainly a help, but a ship would require to have them in sufficient numbers. A vessel of the size of the "LOCHGARRY" would bomber at least require as many more on her to have any chance with a diveto ward them off before actually coming down to the mast heads. During the time in Dover at the Ferry Jetty where the repairing was carried out, the usual routine work of the vessel was being carried on without any special occurrences, and when finished and we finally took our departure for the Clyde I was sent for to see the Principal Sea Transport Officer, who complimented me on the piece of work we had carried through, and said, "It was grand". I felt that we had at least done something for our country, and if we were only once across the channel we had a real good load and got along with it without a hitch. In/	Bat Boat Feasible Lochgarry Security Dover Head Last Lewis Light Long May Seal Ward