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Description: | British officer served aboard Motor Launch ML 276 during raid on Ostend, Belgium, 9/5/1918-10/5/1918
REEL 1 Recollections of operations as officer aboard Motor Launch ML 276 during raid on Ostend, Belgium, 9/5/1918-10/5/1918: plans; news of removal of vital navigational buoy; weather conditions; use of Motor Launches to lay smoke screen for blockship HMS Vindictive; question of Motor Launches responsible for rescue of Vindictive crew; thinning of smoke screen fire from German shore batteries; confused situation concealed in smoke screen and collision with eastern harbour pier; casualties; reversal and move to harbour entrance; positioning of Vindictive to block harbour entrance; question of assisting in rescue of Vindictive crew; request for assistance from Motor Launch 254; manoeuvring under fire to pick up Vindictive crew members in sea; initial problem in restarting engines and escape; view of Vindictive under fire and failure to completely block harbour. | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | BBC | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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