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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.
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Downs. On receipt of these the ship proceeded to the Small Downs and
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Having arrived at a spot slightly North of the ruins of Sandown Castle, beganam about a mile North of Deal, the ship was gently beached, port anchor laid out and all active participation in the evacuation of Dunkirk ceased by
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of the ensuing period there is little to say except that the ship was boarded by the Admiralty Salvage Officer first thing next morning and the ship examined as thoroughly as possible the next low water.
Each time the after part of the ship drained out with the tide, all the visible leaks both in the shell plating and in the bulkheads were stopped as effectively as possible with the materials at hand, three salvage pumps were rigged in the after 'tween deeks to deal with whatever water which leaked past the plugs.
These operations were in progress until Friday June 7th. when we were towed off the beach by Tug "LADY BRASSEY" and afterwards with the assistance of two tugs towed to London finally arriving at SW India Dock at 6 R.M.
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Lewis gun fire was continued as guns were able to bear, the through two lines of tracer bullets from the forward two guns, the bombs which fell about 100 feet away and, after apparently passing plane flew away to the eastward.
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was standing by and, as the weather was fine, was requested to come alongside forward and the two vessels were secured port bow to starboard bow to prevent troops all going to one side and listing the "QUEEN OF THE CHANNEL".
The troops were then ordered over the rail to the other ship, this work proceeded smoothly, the lifeboats meanwhile making an extra passage, having discharged their troops into the "DORIEN ROSE".
By 5.20a.m. all troops had been transferred. A further inspection was made, and water was found to be gaining in the stewards store room and engine room and by this time the bow was out of the water. It was therefore decided to abandon ship.
Confidential papers were collected and final tra nsfer was completed by 5.25.
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The "DORIEN ROSE" let go and proceeded to Dover, arrival being at 2.30p.m., and the passage being without further untoward incident, and during part of it the destroyer H.O.5. acted as escort. The four lifeboats were towed for extra security in case of further attack, but during the passage two broke away and were lost.
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