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THE BRITISH SHIP ADOPTION SOCIETY
OR SEAFARERS)]
DIXON HOUSE, NUE, LONDON, E.C.3.
7th September, 1940.
Telegrams: SHIPADOP, LONDON.
Admiral SIR EDWARD EVANS, E.C.B. D.S.O.
Vice
Presidents
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And at TRIDENT HOUSE,
70
Dear S1PON
Please Reply
116, DOCK STREET,
VISCOUNT SANDON
NEWPORT, MON.
SIR F. VERNON THOMSON
E. H. WMT. Cross has asked me to
Telephone: NEWPORT (Mon.) 3128
Telegrams: SHIPADOP, NEWPORT (Mon.)
Chairman:
thank you for your letter of the
Secretary:
th tember with which you were
6th September,1
good enough to send him a copy of
Minister of Shipping, the first Bulletin issued by your
Berkeley Square,
Society. Mr. Cross was much interested in the contents of this
Dear Mr. Cross, publication.
Yours faithfully, your acceptance a copy
1. M of Hynand - interesting you may like to ther for and which we trust you unBellamy & your Dunkirk collection similar bulletin at
Footain KEENLYSIDE
nost encouraged by the on our first effort.
2. M. Dailbe P.
Private Secretary.
respectfully,
S.E.Britten, Esq.
Secretary.
SEB/DW.
Enclosure tide was ebb, it being about 21/2 hours after high water. and
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When I arrived in Dunkerque Roads there were a large number of other vessels in the vicinity, both large and small.
There was some confusion owing to the heavy bombardment from the shore and the activity of hostile aircraft.
Just after 11 p.m. I heard the sound of a heavy collision close to my vessel.
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P.T.O

121
THE BRITISH SHIP ADOPTION SOCIETY
(AND COMFORTS SERVICE FOR SEAFARERS)
DIXON HOUSE, I, LLOYDS AVENUE, LONDON, E.C.3.
Telephone: ROYAL 6016-7
Telegrams: SHIPADOP, LONDON.
President:
Admiral SIR EDWARD EVANS, K.C.B., D.S.O.
And at TRIDENT HOUSE,
70
Vice-Presidents
116, DOCK STREET,
LORD ESSENDON
Please Reply to:-
NEWPORT, MON.
VISCOUNT SANDON
SIR F. VERNON THOMSON
LONDON.
Telephone: NEWPORT (Mon.) 3128
E. H. WATTS, Esq.
Telegrams: SHIPADOP, NEWPORT (Mon.)
Chairman:
E. H. WATTS, Esq.
Secretary:
S. E. BRITTEN.
6th September, 1940.
The Rt. Hon. R.H. Cross, M.P.
Minister of Shipping,
Berkeley Square House,
Berkeley Square,
LONDON. W.1.
Dear Mr. Cross,
I am submitting for your acceptance a copy of the first Bulletin we have issued and which we trust you will find interesting.
We hope to publish a similar bulletin at regular intervals, and we have been most encouraged by the number of congratulatory messages upon our first effort.
Yours respectfully,
Secretary.
SEB/DW.
Enclosure
THE
the tide was ebb, it being about 21/2 hours after high water.
When I arrived in Dunkerque Roads there were a large number of other vessels in the vicinity, both large and small.
There was some confusion owing to the heavy bombardment from the shore and the activity of hostile aircraft.
Just after 11 p.m. I heard the sound of a heavy collision close to my vessel.
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