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    Hoping to see this fairly soon, has anyone actually seen this new movie ?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Keith at Tregenna View Post
    Hoping to see this fairly soon, has anyone actually seen this new movie ?

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    Read the posts Keith the main thread says it all #1

    ALSO HERE

    http://www.merchant-navy.net/forum/g...02-spirit.html
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    I know dennis has, anyone else ?

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    Any one have answers to my questions on post #1?
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    My post at #4 not sure if there are any answers there Den!
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    That surprises me Doc.
    Thought the question regarding MN women lost in the war, would have been answered.
    Also MN ships at Dunkirk.
    Oh well. It shall remain a mystery.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Dennis McGuckin View Post
    That surprises me Doc.
    Thought the question regarding MN women lost in the war, would have been answered.
    Also MN ships at Dunkirk.
    Oh well. It shall remain a mystery.
    From some of the old newsreels I've seen Den, there were plenty of MN vessels there ranging from coasters to deep sea four hatchers, I remember reading a report many many years ago that over 300 MN vessels were involved, but it was the 'Navy' (and the little ships) that saved the day, it always is, and thus it will ever remain, mainly because newscasters cannot tell the difference twixt a MN vessel and a RN vessel and like someone who asked a question this site thought MN ships were under the control of the RN during the war, now that would have been a laff!

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    Were any female MN members lost during the war?
    I know nurses were aboard troop ships, but were stewardess still serving?
    Don't believe nurses were signed on as MN crew. Dennis.


    Hi Den.
    Yes Stewardeses were employed on MN Ships in WW2, They were on the Gloucester Castle that our Lou and a friend was on when she was sunk on July 14 1942, Some showed extreme bravery and dying, when helping passengers.
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    Re{ Dunkirk,.
    the evacuations also continued down the coast at St Nazaire, where the LANCASTRIA was sunk with anything up to 9,000 lost, also my old ship GEORGIC, Cunard White Star. was there evacuating troops off the beach. the Georgic had also evacuated the Troops from Norway previously, but no one knows about that.
    a lad I sailed with, Nutty Curran, was a survivor of the LANCASTRIA, a Cunard Liner,
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    Were any female MN members lost during the war?
    I know nurses were aboard troop ships, but were stewardess still serving?
    Don't believe nurses were signed on as MN crew. Dennis.


    Hi Den.
    Yes Stewardeses were employed on MN Ships in WW2, They were on the Gloucester Castle that our Lou and a friend was on when she was sunk on July 14 1942, Some showed extreme bravery and dying, when helping passengers.
    Brian
    Last edited by Captain Kong; 28th July 2017 at 04:41 PM.

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    The ‘miracle’ of the Dunkirk evacuation was well known to those who were alive in 1940. The accepted version is that all 338,226 members of the British Expeditionary Force were saved from the beaches near Dunkirk by the Royal Navy and an armada of ‘little ships’ who volunteered for the task. Churchill described the rescue of ‘every last man’ of the BEF as a ‘miracle of deliverance’. There is no doubt that these two groups performed magnificently, but, as with so many ‘miracles’, the story includes some myths. One was that only Royal Naval vessels and the ‘little ships’ were involved; the other that all of the BEF were evacuated.

    In fact almost as many troops were left in France, most to be evacuated in the following three weeks by merchant ships. Certainly the Navy rescued the majority from Dunkirk and it fell to the various Admirals to organise all of the evacuations, but merchant ships carried more than 90,000 troops to safety. About three quarters of these were saved by railway steamers, ferries and excursions ships (generally described as ‘Packets’). The rest were carried by cargo vessels, coasters, tugs and barges. A further 5,548 stretcher cases were moved by other railway steamers acting as hospital carriers. In addition the Navy operated Dutch schuyts and British paddle steamers; [these last] still manned by their peacetime crews and civilian volunteers.

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