... THE LITTLE SHIPS COME BACK Some London's armada of river craft which took part In the withdrawal of the BS?. from Dunkirk returned up river this week-end In silence, they had gone down, writes the London correspondent of the Manchester Guardian. Pew ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... 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/ ...

... 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 ...

... yachts, and old cronies recall how with Danny they used to sit, up in the loft of the fish-curing store making these little ships. At on: lo xzriod Mr Meil owned fleet of -Yachts, which he would watch, criticafiy, as their sikippers raced them ...

... but they could it force the . protected passage the Navy had drawn! from Britain to Dunkirk through, which the armada of little ships' passed. So the U-boats looked elsewhere. and found our anti-submarine defences weakened by the Channel diversion. Our ...

... 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. ...

... muscular torsos. There were flags. It Is pity London did not know about Surely the people would have turned out cheer the little ships. ...

... of opposition, and it was only by sheer force of its own merit that his music at length won popularity. The Little Ships. The 130 little ships that took part in the evacuation of Dunkirk are back again in the Thames, looking, at first glance, as if nothing ...

... 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 ...

... and the skipper was at the wheel.' it was a liberal education, that officer adds, to see the skippers handling their little ships when paosing mine sweeps in a gale of wind. In these days of rapid changes and new inventions it is apt to be forgotten ...