... LITTLE SHIPS The story of the motor launches after the revival of Coastal Forces in the. Second World War is better known and it forms the more intersitiiig section of tins book. In earlier cistern the authors have had to iso r atea c n incomplete The ...

... Chief pays special tribute to the merchantmen and to my little ships,” which included units not only of the Royal Navy, but of the Australian, Indian and South African naval forces. On these “little ships,” navy and merchant, fell the burden of the day.” They ...

... the little ship—so long as there are plenty of them —may be equally essential. It is, after all, an old lesson which all the changes are enforcing. Elizabeth’s Royal Navy which beat the Armada was a mere handful of fighting ships. The little ships which ...

... Little Ships rrHE Little Ship Club claims to be the largest yacht club in the world. With 3.500 members, and still expanding, it has decided it can afford its own home, and in the City to-day, in Bellwharf Lane, the Lord Mayor laid the foundation stone ...

... The Little Ships Light coastal forces have had a busy and profitable week-end in the Channel and the grey North Sea. Early on Saturday morning several groups of enemy E-boats were intercepted off the East Coast in conditions of bad visibility, and a series ...

... NAVY'S `LITTLE SHIPS' FOR ...

... Navy*s *little ships* fought 780 battles, 500 *kills*. THE Navy's little ships closed, was done cost sweeping: duties, convoy * (the M.T.B.s. M.G.B.s and 170 of these tiny craft. escort work jlnd air-sea M.L.s the coastal forces) none of which exceeds ...

... LITTLE SHIPS OF BURMA THE “IRRAWADDY FLOTILLA ITS BIRTH AND DEATH (From a Correspondent) The little ships of England, that wrote their page of history at Dunkirk, have had their counterpart in the Eastern War. In Burma to-day, troops of the Fourteenth ...

... The Little Ships* Part “They are not all big ships that have swarmed across on this invasion. Many motor-launches, motor - torpedo - boats and small assault landing-craft crossed the sea under their own power. tank-landing craft, holed badly, limped into ...

... LITTLE SHIPS RAM E-BOATS War’s Hottest Duel Navy’s little ships fought it out hand-to-hand with strong forces E-boats at the week-end >?he of the hottest and closest duels yet. j Was fierce slugging match as these high-speed of the Royal Navy and the ...

... LITTLE SHIPS SINK TRAWLER Admiralty communique to-day says that during an offensive sweep off the Dutch coast before dawn to-day light coastal forces under the command of Lieut. Peter G. C. Dickens, D.S.C., engaged an enemy armed trawler near Ymuiden ...

... “LITTLE SHIPS” THAT SUCCOURED TOBRUK Alexandria, Sunday. A DMIRAL SIR ANDREW CUNNINGHAM, Commander- in-Chief, in a message to the Mediterranean Fleet, says that during the eight months since the enemy laid siege Tobruk the task of maintaining the garrison ...