From The Wine and Spirit Trade Record dated 17th June 1940. Although Mimosa is recorded as taking part in Operation Dynamo she did not sail to France. More information on the Crested Eagle here!
From Ships that saved an Army. Built 1936 by Caledon Shipbuilding Co. Dundee Tonnage 433 Length 174 f. 1 in. Width 31 ft. 1 in. Machinery British Auxiliaries oil engine, speed 9.5 knots. Although not fast, Bullfinch was used by General Steam Navigation Company on regular liner routes to ports in France, Holland and Belgium. She crossed to La Panne on 28th May but the skipper, Captain H. Buxton found that while the beaches were crowded with troops, evacuation was being held up by a shortage of small boats. He was ordered to beach the Bullfinch at first light next day but the kedge anchor failed to hold and the coaster was left grounded broadside. Lines were run to the shore and boats pulled backwards and forwards until the tide dropped, enabling men to wade out. Bullfinch had to wait until refloating at 6.15 pm and came under air attack both when grounded and after getting underway. Near misses astern damaged the steering gear and she had to hove-too off Dunkirk for repairs, eventually reaching the Downs and unloading 600 men at Ramsgate. After serving GSNC until 1963, the Bullfinch had two years as Commodore Shipping's Norman Commodore and after going to the eastern Mediterranean in 1965 was only finally broken up at Piraeus in 1985.
