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Navy*s *little ships

... 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 ...

Published: Tuesday 21 August 1945
Newspaper: Evening Despatch
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 307 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

“ LITTLE SHIPS ” SINK TRAWLER

... 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 ...

Published: Thursday 29 April 1943
Newspaper: Evening Despatch
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 119 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

LITTLE SHIPS °f EMPIRE

... LITTLE SHIPS °f EMPIRE also developed ships designed 1 able to carry fruit in timber in summer, which is able combination. They ha^ $ able to capture much cP Palestine orange trade and of the Spanish fruit trade. Further afield they carry and timber from ...

Published: Thursday 24 August 1939
Newspaper: Evening Despatch
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 416 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

LITTLE SHIPS’ BUSY DAY

... LITTLE SHIPS’ BUSY DAY enemy ships were probably sunk, while one was driven ashore yesterday during offensive sweeps off the French coast by light forces of the Royal Navy and U.S. Navy. This was announced in an Admiralty communique issued to-day. The ...

Published: Monday 28 August 1944
Newspaper: Evening Despatch
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 207 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

LITTLE SHIPS SAVED 444 LIVES

... LITTLE SHIPS SAVED 444 LIVES Picked up drowning men off beaches small 83ft. cutters of the coastguard rescue flotilla operating with both Amejican and English forces during the amphibious assaults on the French coast have rescued at least 444 troops and ...

Published: Thursday 08 June 1944
Newspaper: Evening Despatch
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 148 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

Feeding the little ships This strange looking vessel is affectionately known in ihe invasion fleet as Micky’s ..

... Feeding the little ships This strange looking vessel is affectionately known in ihe invasion fleet as Micky’s Fish and Chip Bar.’' It is a Thames barge converted into a Landing Barge Kitchen, and it was the first of its type to arrive off the Normandy ...

Published: Tuesday 13 June 1944
Newspaper: Evening Despatch
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 93 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

Little ships carried big-hearted men No combined operation has seen such marvellous cooperation between the ..

... Little ships carried big-hearted men No combined operation has seen such marvellous cooperation between the three Services as the smashing blow at Dieppe’s defences. As Spitfires maintained the highaltitude umbrella tor our ships and troops, groundstrafing ...

Published: Friday 21 August 1942
Newspaper: Evening Despatch
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 143 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

BRITISH BREAK THROUGH! POMPEII

... BRITISH BREAK THROUGH! POMPEII Pictured are two heroes of the Navy’s little ships.” Lieut. Cmdr. Peter M. Scott (above), son of Capt. Scott, the explorer, has been awarded the M.B.E. and D.S.C., and Lieut. Peter Dickens (below), grandson of Charles Dickens ...

Published: Wednesday 29 September 1943
Newspaper: Evening Despatch
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 84 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

home service

... News, Announcements. K. 30: Books and the Writer. (>.4.): Hocus- Bogus, play by Henrik Ege. 7.30: News Norwegian. 7.45: Little Ships and Great Empires. H. 5: “The Unjust Steward.” modern parable, by Gilbert Cunningham. 8.30; Tommy Handley. News. 9.20; ...

Published: Friday 24 April 1942
Newspaper: Evening Despatch
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 78 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

TYPHOID IN , MADRID

... off Ymuiden, a force under the command of Enemy convoys again “stung” by “little ships (FOLLOWING an Admiralty rommunique to-day describing: attacks by the Navy’s “little ships’’ on German convoys over the week-end. the German News Agency reported a dawn ...

Published: Monday 26 July 1943
Newspaper: Evening Despatch
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 627 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

Brutal forecast-

... resisting Italian aggression is seen the presence of a strong fleet to deal with—what? A small collection of ineffective little ships, and in the presence upon Albanian soil of about four Italian soldiers to each one determined defender of. Albanian in ...

Published: Saturday 08 April 1939
Newspaper: Evening Despatch
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 128 | Page: 6 | Tags: none