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Lloyd’s Yacht Register (1939)
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LORD SOUTHBOROUGH Margate (R.N.L.I) Life boat. E. Parker, Coxswain. 30th May 1730 Left Margate for Dunkirk in tow of a motor "barge" (1) commanded by a Naval officer. Boats were taken from the fore shore, and embarked on various craft that were also going over. 2400ca Arrived Dunkirk. The barge ran aground near Nieuport [?] and the lifeboat, unable to refloat her, laid out an anchor on a long length of wire. The barge eventually refloated. The life boat ferried British and French troops to the barge. By now it was low tide and the life boat was hard on the sand; she had to wait for the tide to flow. 31st May 0400ca Continued ferrying till daylight. "We could Bee the troops east and west of us stretching along the sands as far as we could see". 0600ca There was now a nasty surf on the shore. Ferried troops to a destroyer [the Icarus]. "Troops were rushing out to us from all directions and were being drowned close to us and we could not get to them ..... it seemed to me we were doing more harm by drawing the men off the shore, as with their heavy clothing, the surf was knocking them over and they were unable to get up". "The whaler from the destroyer ..... was swamped, 80 was the motor pinnace that was working with the whaler, and BO it was all along the sands as far as I could see, both sides of us, and there was not a boat left afloat". 0830 Proceeded. Near Dunkirk picked up 2 naval officers and 15 ratings from a whaler which was cast adrift. 1450 Arrived Margate. Disembarked 17. Total 17. The Lord Southborough ferried about 500 troops. Authority - To. 9144/41. (1) Not identified. 197
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FRIDAY, 31ST MAY CHAP. VIII After about an hour the Margate life-boat, the Lord Southborough, appeared. All destroyers were now under way, and as the life-boat was returning to Margate the party went back in her¹. She reached Margate at 1450 on May 31st. Thus, by about 0830 on the 31st May all the beach parties of which there are any records had returned or were on their way to England. Devonia is beached At 1035 Rear-Admiral Wake-Walker had informed V.A. Dover that he would beach a ship in the hope of improving conditions for boat work, which was then being made difficult by a lop and he instructed Cdre. Stephenson accordingly. Cdre. Stephenson, then in the yacht Bounty off. La Panne, boarded the minesweeper Devonia at 1600 and gave orders to beach the ship. The Devonia, already much damaged by near misses at 1230, was beached at full speed off La Panne, and at 1930, on account of the shelling and bombing, she was abandoned. Fortunately by 1700 the weather off the beaches had much improved. Casualties to H.M. Ships With the exception of the Devonia none of H.M. ships was lost on this day, but the following were slightly damaged : the Vivacious was damaged by a shell hit and had 3 dead and 12 wounded; the Hebe received slight damage from a near miss; the Wolsey was in collision with the P/V Roebuck; the Impulsive damaged a propeller on uncharted wreckage; the Malcolm was in collision with Dunkirk pier; and the Scimitar was in collision with the Icarus and later with a drifter². Air patrols During the 31st May Fighter Command carried out patrols, as on the 30th May, at an average strength of three to four squadrons. Eight patrols in all were flown, involving 289 sorties. The periods in the day when the Dunkirk area was not covered were 0620-0800, 0830-1110, 1510-1615, and 1745-1915³. Coastal Command patrolled the line North Goodwins-Gravelines-Ostend throughout the day, patrols being of one section strength, involving in all 37 sorties⁴. Shortly before 0930 the Air Ministry intercepted a meassage indicating that the enemy air force had been ordered not to attack the town or harbour of Dunkirk but to concentrate attacks on shipping at sea, or leaving the coast³. It was at about 1230 that, off La Panne, the Devonia received extensive damage to her hull from 4 near misses, but the first major attack on our ships occurred about 1415-1430 when one of our squadrons estimated the enemy strength as about 100 aircraft (bombers and fighters). Rear-Admiral Wake- Walker says, "a terrific air battle took place overhead and it seemed to go against us". Actually, we lost 9 aircraft and claimed 7 enemy shot down.6 Air attacks then followed at half-hourly intervals between 1530 and 1730, and at about 1717 the Ivanhoe, Whitehall and Express off Dunkirk harbour were attacked by about 50 bombers. The Whitehall received some damage and the Express slight damage from near misses. At this time also the Hebe was attacked off La Panne by 4 bombers and was damaged by near misses ; I Cdr. Richardson's report (R.O.III, p.370). 2 Probably either the Gervais Rentoul or the Eileen Emma which both returned damaged as the result of collisions. 3 R.A.F. Narrative, p.334. 4 R.A.F. Narrative, p.336. 5 M.017978/41, p.17. 6 R.A.F. Narrative, p.335. 83
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