Quiz #149

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Ships participating in the evacuation of the BEF from Dunkirk, May-June 1940. Just after departing Dunkirk the morning of 28 May, Queen of the Channel was hit and sunk by German dive bombers. Most of the 950 soldiers on board were rescued by coaster Dorrien Rose. The sinking led to daylight evacuation by the larger unarmed ships being halted. Malines rescued over 1,000 from the torpedoed destroyer Grafton on 29 May. Her sisters Antwerp and Bruges were also used in the evacuation, with the latter being sunk 11 June off Le Havre. Codrington evacuated the Crown Princess of the Netherlands from Ijmuiden and then, as leader of the 1st Destroyer Flotilla, conducted offshore patrols during the Dunkirk evacuation, including taking troops from the beaches. She was sunk by German bombers at Dover on 27 July. Greyhound and sisters Gallant, Grafton, and Grenade all participated in the evacuation, the latter two both being lost on 29 May -- the former to U-69 in the Channel and the latter to bombers at Dunkirk.
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