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20th June, 1940.
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Sailing Vessels "ETHEL EVERARD"
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Naval Officer in charge.
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YOUR REF
DATE
OUR REF.
FSB/HL
6th June, 1940.
Mr. Eakins,
The Ministry of Shipping,
Berkeley Square House,
Berkeley Square,
LONDON W.1.
Dear Mr. Eakins,
Enclosed please find reports of our motor vessel SEQUACITY" and sailing barges "ETHEL EVERARD
and PROYALTY" which I trust you will find in order.
Yours
For W faithfully,
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In the meantime eleven German planes appeared overhead and bombed both the "Yewdale" and ourselves.
Another shell burst over our fiddley and put the Bren gun out of action, and wounded the chief engineer.

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We loaded Dynamite shells, and small arms
Jon ammunition and packed stores in Dover, and towed away a
acts
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with the barge Tollesbury" at 2.30 p.m. on Friday
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the 31st May.
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We had no definite instructions where we were to proceed to, but after towing up through the Downs the tug shaped his course for Dunkirk, and we were off Gravelines about 11.30 p.m. on Friday night. From then onwards we were continually machine gunned and bombed.
About 1 a.m. on Saturday morning when about one mile east of Dunkirk we shortened towrope and the tug master informed us we were to steerfor the beach and await orders.
We sailed on to the beach, and it was now about half ebb, and the smallswell which was on knocked us round broadside, and by this time we were being continually attacked.
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We had a sergeant and five soldiers on board, and va fo he hailed the troops that were on the beach thinking they were the working party to discharge us, but they turned out yp to be troops waiting to be evacuated and they soon swarmed on board. They were suffering badly from thirst so they soon emptied our water tanks, and a naval cutter from the th va
Gun boat lying off then took them on board the Gun boat.
Shortly after an Army Officer came on board and asked me to allow my crew to row him off to the Gun boat,
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and we were still being badly bombed, and about thirty
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minutes after a naval pinnace came up to us, and instructed in us to go back to the Gunboat with the crews of the other th barges that were on the beach.
On boarding the Gunboat a naval officer informed er me they had decided to abandon our vessels, and were going to fire them.