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Fratton
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Red List (1939–40) — OCR
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- Ship type: Cargo Ship
Lloyd’s Yacht Register (1939)
Source: Lloyd’s Register Foundation, Heritage & Education Centre, Lloyd’s Register of Yachts 1939, digitised via Internet Archive. Licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0. Images have been converted, resized and watermarked for web display; machine-generated table OCR has been added.
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Source: Lloyd’s Register Foundation, Heritage & Education Centre, Lloyd’s Register of Yachts 1939, digitised via Internet Archive. Licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0. Images have been converted, resized and watermarked for web display; machine-generated table OCR has been added.
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| Portal, Lt.-Col. Lord, D.S.O., Laverstoke House, Whitchurch, Hants. | Portier, Francis, Route de Chéne, 55, Genera. Tons | Pounds, H. G., Fratton, Portsmouth, Hants. Tons | Praesent, H. R., Blumenstr. 25. Hamburg.-Nrd. Tons | Prestage, W. H., Fourteen, Chad Road, Edgbaston, Birmingham.-S.Cr. Tons |
Source: The National Archives, Kew, ADM 199 795. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
Details
105 1/ 2 936 Before anchoring at 2300, I took in tow off Be The three motorboats were then sent inshore to bring Head the cad ferry FRATTON, which had be of soldiers. the hoppers two lifeboats were also used unmanageable in a rising sea. inshore to take soldiers off to the motorboats. These boats While at anchor an enemy aircraft was old were manned by the civilian happers crew and their keenness and cheerful spirit was a fine example to in the beam of a searchlight on an easterly the French troops. 72 five hours the boats were used coming from the direction of Partsmouth This to take two hundred and sixty men about FOREMOST at about 2400, June 5ᵗʰ 102, and also to fill other ships lying offshore. the a permanent tow was passed to FRATTON and fast motorboat was half capsized during a bombing 0200 we got under weigh, taking the wonte orde raid, but after untiring efforts by her crew was righted to Portsmouth, and arriving at the gate at 1630P again and continued to run on one engine. We 6th June. We slipped FRATTON off fort B lock hour weighed at 2230, taking the fast motorboak and launch and came to a buoy in Fountain Lake. The other Wave Queen in tow and leaving Enterprise and to fow hoppers remained at hewhaven owing to short crew still taking off troops. of wates. while we were at Dunkisk the enemy artillery were quiet, but commenced shelling the harboud again as we left. There were several banbing raids, most of the I have the honord to he, banks bursting on the promenade or in the town itself. ho Vice admiral bommanding, Sir, low-flying attacks were made. Dones Command, at 2230 - D During the night the motorboat, which your obedient servant. had become very waterlogged, broke its towing bollard KAHMARTIN unobserved and so was last, presumably sinking later. acting sub Lientenan Royal
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