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Lost Little Ships

... Lost Little Ships \rtliur Salter, Parliamcncretary for Shipping, said it would be impracticable for his Ministry to replace small vessels belonging to civilians lost during the evacuation of Dunkirk. But c pensatio lers might obta No Answer —Yef Mr. ...

Published: Thursday 20 June 1940
Newspaper: Daily Herald
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 73 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

HOW LITTLE SHIPS RESCUED THE B.E.F. By EWART BROOKES

... HOW LITTLE SHIPS RESCUED THE B.E.F. By EWART BROOKES Daily Mirror Staff Reporter, who went to Dunkirk on one of the rescue ships FOR seventeen hours I lived in a hell—a hell from which we pulled out members of the 8.E.F., just some of the many thousands ...

Published: Monday 03 June 1940
Newspaper: Daily Mirror
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 282 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

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... said the Mayor. that he had received so far. BY A SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT BACK to the slow waters and the lazy reaches, the Little Ships are home from Hell. They came back yesterday up London's river, dirty, damaged, pock-marked where the German bullets had ...

Published: Monday 10 June 1940
Newspaper: Daily Mirror
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 258 | Page: 16 | Tags: none

Dunkirk Gave U-Boats Their Chance

... but they could not force the protected passage the Navy had drawn from Britain to Dupkirk through which the armada of little ships passed. So the U-boats looked elsewhere and found our anti-submarine defences weakmed by the Channel diversion. Our Merchant ...

Published: Wednesday 12 June 1940
Newspaper: Daily News (London)
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 148 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

NAZI ARMOURED UNITS

... of Dunkirk returned to the Thames yesterday for minor repairs. Few onlookers along the Embankment realised that these little ships had helped to bring the B.E.F. to safety, (See Story on Page Three.) liy luttle Ships of Dunkirk * Come HometoThames V/ ...

Published: Monday 10 June 1940
Newspaper: Daily Herald
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 58 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

Inside News

... Force awards 3 America's foreign policy 4 Spotlight on the War. by A. il. Cummings 4 Full story of the heroic work of the Little Ships at Dunkirk 5 New R.A.F. attacks on Germans 3 ...

Published: Monday 10 June 1940
Newspaper: Daily News (London)
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 55 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

LAUNCHED BY PHONE: MEN'S POCKET COMPASSES

... LAUNCHED BY PHONE: MEN'S POCKET COMPASSES THE assembly of the Armada of Little Ships which rescued the B.E.F. and French Armies from Dunkirk was neither a miracle nor magic. The gathering of nearly small ships, raitgi tit! from two-seater canoes to luxury ...

Published: Thursday 06 June 1940
Newspaper: Daily News (London)
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 678 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

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... V THE ITALIAN NAVY-INCLUDING THOSE NOW COMPLETING. 'ITISH AND FRENCH FLEETS WILL SHOW ITS INFERIORITY. particularly the little ships of the Regolo class now constructing. Three of the Italian heavy cruisers have a wide radius of action—namely, the Trento ...

Published: Saturday 15 June 1940
Newspaper: Illustrated London News
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 234 | Page: 22 | Tags: none

She's Grand !

... seventeen hours of rowing backwards and forwards from the boats to the beach under a downpour of death from the skies. The Little Ships have all got their tales of valour. Thames-side will sing them as long as the river flows. ...

Published: Monday 10 June 1940
Newspaper: Daily Mirror
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 292 | Page: 16 | Tags: none

WEEK REVIEWED

... WEEK REVIEWED surgeon on a liner 600 miles distant. A comforting shcw for all t‘lio cam their livelihood on the little ships. MAD MAESTRO (cartoon in Te(hntrolor). American (1%). 692 fret. Release not xed.—The animal orchestra performs a symphony under ...

Published: Thursday 27 June 1940
Newspaper: Kinematograph Weekly
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 210 | Page: 14 | Tags: none

A VESTAL VIRGIN FROM JAPAN

... she snatched a lantern and for weary hours held it aloft on the storm-swept island top. She saw when the dawn broke two little ships riding safely at anchor in the haven below, and then and there determined to devote her life to saving others. Stone by ...

“DYNAMO ROOM” HAD CONTROL OF DUNKIRK EVACUATION

... heat wa£ great that sat ease on one vessel no troops could come down to the One of the few who recognised docks, what the little ships were was a had to make alternative bus driver. arrangements or we could not get He pulled up his bus as It was any men ...

Published: Monday 10 June 1940
Newspaper: Daily Herald
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 852 | Page: 3 | Tags: none