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... Little ships held back A Channel crossing by shi that took- part in the gunku?: evacuation- of 340,000 British - postponed ot for 3¢ Kos ago was p¢ ed for ] yesterday ‘because of bad e A said at Dont?!goca-l of the b ey decided to m«:‘ym by .2¢ i 'mw'i ...
... The Little Ships Somali, a cargo ship, succumbed to enemy bombing in 1941 off the Northumberland coast; and Lahore, carrying a cargo of pig-iron and tea, was torpedoed in the vicinity of the Cape Verde Islands. Surat made uJ) the year's tally of losses ...
... Little Ships HAIDA . By Lieut . - Commander William Sclater . Illustrated by Lieut . Grant Macdonald . ( 21 s , Oxford University Press . ) DUST UPON THE SEA . By W . E . Benyon-Tinker . ( 15 s . Hbdder & Stoughton . ) Here are two different sides of ...
... ‘Little ships’ in tribute The little lhir that snatched British troops from the shores of Dunkirk- gathered off the beaches yesterday in tribute to the men who 'did not return 45 years ago. A ‘flotilla of little ships, which. all made that treacherous ...
... SALE OF LITTLE SHIPS Unexpected Bonus of £ 1 , 273 , 000 . When the war ended in 1945 , many estuaries and small rivers round Britain ' s coast became cemeteries of dead landingcraft —the little ships in which were carried the spearhead of . the Normandy ...
... while tho little ship passes hy unnoticed . Yet circumstances decided that it was not the big ships—tlio heavily armoured battleship and the powerful battle-cruiserthat were to bear the greatest strain of thd war at sea , but the little ships , among them ...
... The puffers” and little ships of the Clyde Coal: and other cargoes were carried in the bottoms of .longbowsprited smacks usually of not more than 30 ‘tons deadweight. They would return if lucky. with a ballast of sand cargo. As recently as in the 1920 ...
... Wind blasts little ships MORE than half the Dunkirk fleet of little ships were being patched up yesterday, after suffering a battering from force seven winds on the 50th anniversaa'- voyage from Dover to France. Crews were repairing damaged hulls and ...
... Flotilla of little ships beating oil menace A - flotilla of -little ships specially equipped for breaking up patches of oil appeared last night to have got the upper hand against the creeping menace in the Channel ™ Captain. Thomas Fields, in charge of ...
... LATEST NEWS —?—NAVY'S ' • LITTLE SHIPS Attack on Axis Convoy oil Bizerta Allied H . Q ., Algiers , Friday . — The Royal Navy ' s flcel of little ships — fast , shallow vessels—is keeping a ceaseless pati'ol of the Tunisian coasts to attack supply ...
... GETTING NAZIS SCARED OUR LITTLE SHIPS Sinkings on Enemy Coasts Britain's little ships of coastal forces now carry out most of iheir patl'ols off tllG enemy ' s coast , and nearly all the lights take place near enemy shores . I' have no doubt that ...
... ‘Little ships’ sail back to scene of wartime triumph Jon Coates CHEERING - crowds lined the dockside to greet more than 60 ‘little ships’ last night as they sailed into Dunkirk to mark the 60th anniversary of the Second World War evacuation of the French ...