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Operation volcano! Navy armada ready to pick up thousands of stranded Britons after France
Daily Mail ^
| 19th April 2010
| Vanessa Allen and Ray Massey
Posted on 04/18/2010 7:29:16 PM PDT by rdl6989
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.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
TOPICS: Extended News; United Kingdom
KEYWORDS: eyjafjallajokull; iceland; volcano
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posted on
04/18/2010 7:29:16 PM PDT
by
rdl6989
To: rdl6989
“After France Scuppers DIY Rescue Mission” is the rest of the title.
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posted on
04/18/2010 7:30:08 PM PDT
by
rdl6989
(January 20, 2013- The end of an error.)
To: SunkenCiv; Jet Jaguar
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posted on
04/18/2010 7:30:25 PM PDT
by
rdl6989
(January 20, 2013- The end of an error.)
To: rdl6989
Good on them.
I hope the can get some folks home safely.
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posted on
04/18/2010 7:34:41 PM PDT
by
Jet Jaguar
(*)
To: rdl6989
Reverse D-Day...
I wonder if the French Navy will pick up stranded French citizens in the UK...
Is the Chunnel also down?
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posted on
04/18/2010 7:35:57 PM PDT
by
Thunder90
(Fighting for truth and the American way... http://citizensfortruthandtheamericanway.blogspot.com/)
To: rdl6989
Couldn’t they get on a train or buses and use the Chunnel?
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posted on
04/18/2010 7:46:47 PM PDT
by
xkaydet65
(Never compromise with evil! Even in the face of Armageddon!! Rorshach)
To: All
I wonder if the U.S.A. will be called in to help them, as we did during the Great War? ;)
Oh...probably not now that our current Administration is no longer friends with the Western, civilized, free countries....what was I thinking!?!! </sarch>
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posted on
04/18/2010 7:48:10 PM PDT
by
I_Publius
To: rdl6989
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posted on
04/18/2010 7:48:24 PM PDT
by
MuttTheHoople
(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/9/9c/TeddyVWad.jpg)
To: MuttTheHoople
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posted on
04/18/2010 7:57:10 PM PDT
by
rdl6989
(January 20, 2013- The end of an error.)
To: rdl6989
This is a bizarre story. Why can't stranded Britons take the Chunnel train? I've got to figure that if the UK is going to foot the bill for a flotilla to rescue vacationers that it would be far cheaper to pay for buses and trains.
I suppose it's a good training opportunity for the Navy?
To: xkaydet65; Thunder90
I wondered about the chunnel.
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posted on
04/18/2010 7:57:42 PM PDT
by
rdl6989
(January 20, 2013- The end of an error.)
To: upstanding
The ‘Chunnel’ is a novelty, not a viable mass transit option.
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posted on
04/18/2010 8:08:18 PM PDT
by
editor-surveyor
(Obamacare is America's kristallnacht !!)
To: rdl6989; AdmSmith; Berosus; bigheadfred; Convert from ECUSA; dervish; Ernest_at_the_Beach; ...
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posted on
04/18/2010 8:16:05 PM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
("Fools learn from experience. I prefer to learn from the experience of others." -- Otto von Bismarck)
To: rdl6989
and to think the once great British fleet isn't big enough to pick up the stranded, much less fight a war...
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posted on
04/18/2010 8:22:50 PM PDT
by
Chode
(American Hedonist *DTOM* -ww- NO Pity for the LAZY)
To: rdl6989; xkaydet65; upstanding
Everybody keeps asking about the Channel Tunnel - it’s a rail tunnel and every single train running through it is currently filled to absolute capacity. And they’ve put on every train they have, running at the highest frequency possible.
It’s moving quite a few people - thousands every day - but it’s a drop in the ocean compared to the number of people trapped on both sides of it.
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posted on
04/18/2010 8:25:58 PM PDT
by
naturalman1975
("America was under attack. Australia was immediately there to help." - John Winston Howard)
To: naturalman1975
IIRC - They did not scrap the ferry system when they completed the chunnel. Those are some BIG ferry boats, more like cruise ships. Good PR for the Royal Navy though.
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posted on
04/18/2010 8:43:47 PM PDT
by
GunsAndBibles
(God save Calif. - 'cause it's gonna take a miracle.)
To: GunsAndBibles
The ferries are all at capacity too.
There are 750,000 Britons in Europe at the moment. While they are not all trying to get home, a lot of them are.
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posted on
04/18/2010 8:47:19 PM PDT
by
naturalman1975
("America was under attack. Australia was immediately there to help." - John Winston Howard)
To: Thunder90
Yes parts may be. I spoke to a Brit pal about a month ago and there was a rail problem to be solved. Maybe it is still under repair. I had that thought as well...use the chunnel if you can travel to Paris or Calais by car.
To: celtic gal; Thunder90
The chunnel is functioning - it’s just full. Everybody who can use it is already using it.
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posted on
04/18/2010 9:32:48 PM PDT
by
naturalman1975
("America was under attack. Australia was immediately there to help." - John Winston Howard)
To: rdl6989
Do trains work under these conditions?
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