Re: Madame de Gaulle evacuation from France 1940
Posted by:
de domenico (IP Logged)
Date: February 10, 2014 01:10PM
From John de S. Winser, "Short Sea: Long War, Cross-Channel Ships' Naval & Military Service in World War II", World Ship Society, 1997:
"PRINSES JOSEPHINE CHARLOTTE", 2,950 grt/1931, owner Belgian government
"The ship ( ...) before finally returning to the Mersey on May 31. She then sailed South to reach Falmouth on June 16 and next day was directed to Brest where she embarked stragglers, prior to taking aboard Belgian troops at St. Nazaire for a June 18 return to Falmouth."