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Object description
An edited, wordprocessed transcript (18pp) of a lively account written in 1941 by an able seaman recalling the first of his three trips to Dunkirk as skipper of the motor yacht NAIAD ERRANT during which he rescued some survivors from the French destroyer FOUDROYANT and, despite running aground and an engine breakdown, managed to ferry a number of troops from the beaches to a destroyer and then to bring a party of soldiers safely back to Ramsgate on the night of 1 - 2 June, as NAIAD ERRANT also did on the two following days; together with a wordprocessed monograph (20pp) prepared by the Reverend John Richards in 2000 describing how NAIAD ERRANT's service at Dunkirk was brought to public notice by John Masefield's book THE NINE DAYS WONDER (Heinemann, 1941) and giving details of alterations made to the text of the book to avoid further offending the French, of Masefield's correspondence with the owner of NAIAD ERRANT and of the history of the surviving photographs of the yacht taken in 1939 - 1940.
Content description
An edited, wordprocessed transcript (18pp) of a lively account written in 1941 by an able seaman recalling the first of his three trips to Dunkirk as skipper of the motor yacht NAIAD ERRANT during which he rescued some survivors from the French destroyer FOUDROYANT and, despite running aground and an engine breakdown, managed to ferry a number of troops from the beaches to a destroyer and then to bring a party of soldiers safely back to Ramsgate on the night of 1 - 2 June, as NAIAD ERRANT also did on the two following days; together with a wordprocessed monograph (20pp) prepared by the Reverend John Richards in 2000 describing how NAIAD ERRANT's service at Dunkirk was brought to public notice by John Masefield's book THE NINE DAYS WONDER (Heinemann, 1941) and giving details of alterations made to the text of the book to avoid further offending the French, of Masefield's correspondence with the owner of NAIAD ERRANT and of the history of the surviving photographs of the yacht taken in 1939 - 1940.
History note
Cataloguer RWAS
History note
Catalogue date 2000-12