Dunkirk Operation Dynamo Evacuation Beaches

Is it laid on a rocky scar ?
There are rocky scars behind it , maybe not Dunkirk.

 

No the 'crow's nest was on many ships, on an ordinary trading ship it was for a longtime the lookout's place. But on a fishing type vessel, which this is, it was commonly where the whale spotter (not sure what the proper term is) was. The ship on the right was in naval service, witness the gun on the forecastle (and on the tug that was towing it). That said both could well be French - I don't know what LT signifies. Strange that the tug also has a crows nest - suppose the alternative is mine spotting or U-boat periscope spotting, but as they are both so small I can't really understand why anyone would want to go aloft to see them?

 

2nd photo wreck hms grenade in the harbour of Dunkirk

 

Malo terminus.

 

I can't help but thinking that the front bus in this view may actually be an ex Northern Ireland Road Transport Board vehicle rather than ex Bartons. I would love to find more images of this if possible....

 

I've searched the thread, but can't see any images of the 56 Squadron Hurricane Mk1 US-T which seems to have been N2659 - Listed as forced landing on the beaches 29th May 1940...another location to find !

Incident Hawker Hurricane Mk 1 N2659, 29 May 1940

 

A few more that came in the post. Photos from my collection.
Keith.

 

Sorry for being so many years late in picking up on your post. Stamford in Lincolnshire.

 

One barge was sunk at the end of the Mole next to the Isle of Man. SS Fenella. Photo from my collection
Keith

 

The beach between Malo-les-Bains and Malo-Terminus. Two wrecks : the Horst on the beach and the Lorina in the sea.

 

There must surely be a place on his thread for "Bill" Tennant

 

One more photo of a bus from my collection.
Keith

 

Can you read bus the AOS Keith ?

Craig

 

No sorry the photo is not good enough

 

Found the photo in my album and enlarged it. Could be 60? but not 100% on the bus. 1 L of C Motor Transport Company RASC.
From Andrews book.
Keith

 

Thanks Keith , I was wondering what unit had the bus, that RASC unit would make sense.

Craig

 

One barge was sunk at the end of the Mole [ Royalty] ? . next to the Isle of Man. SS Fenella. Photos from my collection.
The barge is likely to be Royalty: if it was abandoned on Malo-les-Bains, the tide would probably carry it gradually westward. Meanwhile there's a strong Easterly wind blowing in one of the photos (the one showing Fenella awash with signal flag flying and the lighthouse visible), which may have dislodged the barge from the beach and blown it straight onto the Mole, where it got snared in the wreck.

This info came from Avril Jackson and Barry Jackson, the sunken barge is likely to be the Royalty. A photograph of her in Garret’s “Everard of Greenhithe” shows her to have a mizzen mast set forward of the wheel, in mulie style, but having a conventional sprit rig. The barge in the Dunkirk photo has quite a tall mizzen mast, which you would expect to find with a mulie, with the same spritsail rig on the mizzen. Also the cap at the top of the mast is fairly pronounced, as indeed it is in the book. I accept that this is not easy to see, but close inspection does suggest it.
Also this info. CERVIA
Tug Master: Capt W H Simmons
Naval Officer: None recorded
31st May 1940
2140 Left Dover, sailing barge "Royalty" in tow and the "Persia" towing two sailing barges "Sark" and "Shetland" in company
1st June 1940
0720 1 Mile east of Dunkirk pier, "Royalty" being towed at full speed, slipped tow and beached herself head on, on Malo beach.
Photos from my collection
Keith

 

The bus is JD 8472 an AEC Regal which would be subsequently used by the Wehrmacht. I am not sure which British unit would have operated this - were there RASC Motor Coach Companies operating in Belgium?

 

Did ' 1 L of C Motor Transport Company RASC.' as mentioned above use coaches ?

Craig

 

Update for Uncle Target's Post 771, from his profile at the National Maritime Museum and citing only his WW2 service:

From: Tennant, Sir William George, Admiral, 1890-1963. | Royal Museums Greenwich

He appears in many threads here, with some controversy about his conduct after Dunkirk and calling - a polite word - for Churchill's removal as Prime Minister. See as a "taster" Would Hitler really have invaded Britain?

He appears as: William Tennant, Bill Tennant and Captain Tennant.

Many of the threads are quite old.