Posted on 04/18/2010 4:12:23 PM PDT by Biggirl
An Armada of Royal Navy ships is poised to rescue Britons stranded by the aviation shutdown. The dramatic operation would carry thousands of families home from Channel ports in a rerun of the 1940 Dunkirk evacuation. Security Minister Lord West said commercial ships and amphibious landing craft could also be drafted into service.
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interesting!
Good God! These people don’t even know their own history. It was the civilians in their boats who rescued the British forces from Dunkirk
That was a sanctioned operation where civilian boats chipped in.
I suggested just this to my wife the other night, that the US Navy pick up all those stranded Americans in LeHavre, or that Carnival Cruise Lines get their butt over there and start ferrying people back to New York.
I guess what I’m saying is that the 1940 Dunkirk evacuation would not have been as historic if it had been strictly a naval operation and I don’t think the Royal Navy ferrying a bunch of tourists equates to civilians helping to save the Britist armed forces.
This is satire, isn’t it?
Have they forgotten that they have a train that runs under the channel??
What about prop planes? It’s my understanding that the problem lies in the silica in the ash plume fusing with super heated jet engine blades.
The vast majority of the British soldiers retrieved from Dunkirk were taken home by the Royal Navy. The civillian vessels were very important in ferrying troops from the beaches to the warships lying offshore, and certainly took a significant thousands all the way back to England themselves, but it was probably less than ten percent of the total evacuated. Nearly all came back on the warships.
History tends to focus on the little ships - and they did their part - but the Navy did hers as well.
That train is full. As many extra trains that can be have been added to services, and they are full as well. It’s at full capacity and its moving a lot of people, but nowhere near as many as planes do.
Have they forgotten that they have a train that runs under the channel??
It’s booked full, and so are the buses.
the cRAF did their part too though they are usually spoken poorly of by the soldiers during this operation. clouds prevented soldiers from seeing the raf in action and short range fighters had a limited time over dunkirk compared with loiter time for the luftwaffe.
good thinng hitler listened to goering instead of sneding in the panzers.
a lot of frencjmaen were qalso saved during the evacuation. IIRC lightower of titanic fame used his boat in the evacuation.
Uh, why can’t these folks just rent cars and drive home through the Chunnel?
Because the chunnel isn't for cars.
And, yes, Commander Lightoller, by that time a retired officer of the Royal Navy (he was twice decorated during the First War) took his motor yacht, the Sundowner across during the evacuation and brought about 130 men back to England. The vessel is now moored at the Ramsgate Maritime Museum in England, as an example of one of the larger of the 'little ships'. She stayed in service as a patrol vessel for the rest of the war.
The silica will score cylinders and rings. The damage will not occur as fast, but it will occur.
Also, windscreens and other surfaces can be badly damaged.
The time saved over rail or boat travel would be eaten up (literally) by damage to aircraft.
And the safety aspect cannot be ignored.
“...in a rerun of the 1940 Dunkirk evacuation.”
Maybe we can get the Germans to contribute a few S-Boots and Me-109s.
Why in the hell would you want to go back.At least the germans wont be bombing the shit out of the beaches this time.
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