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LITTLE SHIPS

... LITTLE SHIPS Running Enemy Blockade Young men sailing high-speed little ships of the British Merchant Navy have split wide open the German blockade of the Skagerak and Kattegat, and kept open the vital North Sea shipping route between Sweden and Britain ...

Published: Monday 17 July 1944
Newspaper: Liverpool Echo
County: Lancashire, England
Type: | Words: 86 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

THE LITTLE SHIPS

... THE LITTLE SHIPS Perhaps, however, the most interesting feature in this not very ancient history of Conway and district are the entries set against various ships. Closely interwoven into the lives and daily activities of the district, a century and more ...

Published: Thursday 25 April 1946
Newspaper: North Wales Weekly News
County: Denbighshire, Wales
Type: | Words: 336 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

Little Ships

... Little Ships November, 1926, twenty-seven sailing enthusiasts met in London restaurant and decided to form a club to promote good fellowship among kindred spirits. To-day, the Little Ship Club has some 1,750 members of all ages in different parts of the ...

Published: Thursday 22 June 1939
Newspaper: Scunthorpe Evening Telegraph
County: Lincolnshire, England
Type: | Words: 131 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

LITTLE SHIPS

... LITTLE SHIPS Protection of convoy by destroyers and air cover through out the whole voyage will ! beat the U-boat and its surface sister, the E-boat. We cannot provide - complete air cover because distances are too great, that over long stretches of sea ...

Published: Saturday 20 February 1943
Newspaper: Western Mail
County: Glamorgan, Wales
Type: | Words: 335 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

LITTLE SHIPS

... LITTLE SHIPS _ year-old Great Uncle Jethro for Quicker than you could see, QUIZ Birthday Congratulations company. Even mother had gone four whaleboats were lowered 1. What do you arioalate with visiting, from the big ship and manned— the name Oruft? ...

Published: Friday 03 August 1951
Newspaper: Runcorn Weekly News
County: Cheshire, England
Type: | Words: 2059 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

The Little Ships

... The Little Ships # I put forward a pica for the meq of the little ships during the first year the war. Without gun to defend them, selves against aircraft, with antimagnetic apparatus, the minesweepers and patrol vessels stood the fuU brunt against the ...

Published: Monday 11 October 1943
Newspaper: Daily Herald
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 296 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

The little ships

... The little ships HERE ARE THE CRAFT THOUSANDS WILL SAIL THIS SEASON 'J'HE greatest armada of little ships that Britain has ever known will go down to the sea, the rivers and the lakes this season. Hosts of refugees from the crowded roadways and thousands ...

Published: Wednesday 04 January 1961
Newspaper: Daily Herald
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 716 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

Little Ships in

... Little Ships in Channel Action During offensive patrols in the English Channel early on Saturday morning light forces of the Royal Navy sank an enemy auxiliary vessel, damaged a minesweeper gunfire, and set an R-boat on hre two short engagements north ...

Published: Monday 21 August 1944
Newspaper: Western Mail
County: Glamorgan, Wales
Type: | Words: 192 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

LITTLE SHIPS

... 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 ...

Published: Thursday 18 May 1961
Newspaper: Coventry Evening Telegraph
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 973 | Page: 11 | Tags: none

The Little Ships

... The Little Ships In a tribute to the men of the light coastal forces, Mr. Alexander said; “More than 90 per cent, of the officers who command these [boats are civilians in naval uniform ffor war time. We had very sketchy I forces in that direction at ...

Published: Wednesday 31 March 1943
Newspaper: Western Mail
County: Glamorgan, Wales
Type: | Words: 74 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

THE LITTLE SHIPS

... THE LITTLE SHIPS Dear S:r. or Madam, Yo'l have heard o: our Luncheon C1 . .1.)U have you heard about our tiET TEAS? ...

Published: Wednesday 13 November 1946
Newspaper: East Kent Times and Mail
County: Kent, England
Type: | Words: 23 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

LITTLE SHIPS

... LITTLE SHIPS Conway estuary, the castle and town wall behind it, has been described as Britain's most picturesque anchorage. Up to about half-a-century ago the port was an important link in the Liverpool—North Wales coastal shipping service, but its ...

Published: Thursday 23 August 1951
Newspaper: North Wales Weekly News
County: Denbighshire, Wales
Type: | Words: 363 | Page: 6 | Tags: none