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World War Two / Re: Mystery ship at St Nazair June 18th 1940
« on: Wednesday 09 March 11 22:01 GMT (UK)  »
I was talking to a gentleman (age about 90)  a year or so ago after the Lancastria memorial service in Edinburgh  who had been at St Nazaire on 17th June 1940.  He had been ordered to smash up  Motor bikes with a sledgehammer in a warehouse at St Nazaire to stop them being used by the enemy.


I can understand why that was done, dad said the engine on his bike was a deep red it was so hot but kept going.

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World War Two / Re: Mystery ship at St Nazair June 18th 1940
« on: Wednesday 09 March 11 16:51 GMT (UK)  »
Arrivals at Plymouth on Wednesday  19th June 1940:    Baharistan.   City of Mobile ....  Clan Ferguson.    Fabian.   Glen Affric  all  designated as Convoy FF.2A.

Plus Dorsetshire and Ormonde  marked as "Independent"

If you go to another page and look up  convoy FF.2A    you will probably see the number of troops carried on those ships.
Thankyou for your response Scouseboy, I will check these out, My father was in the R A O C at this time and think he was a dispatch rider, he hardly ever spoke about the war but did say once he had ridden 600 miles across France on a BSA M20 and its roughly that distance I believe from Dunkirk where he had been after the liberation on June 4th.

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World War Two / Re: Mystery ship at St Nazair June 18th 1940
« on: Sunday 06 March 11 17:54 GMT (UK)  »
I have a letter my father sent to my mother saying he had landed at Plymouth on June 19th 1940 at 6pm, he drew a picture of the ship with 3 funnells, he said the ship he should have been on had got hit and sunk, I dont know whether this could have been the Lancastria in St. Nazaire or not, and I am trying to find out the name of the ship he was on. Anyone any ideas?.

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