Typescript account of a voyage by HMT Glen Affric, Glen Line, 1940.

DX/2642

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Typescript account of a voyage by HMT Glen Affric, Glen Line, including the evacuation of St Nazaire, June 1940 [Operation Ariel]. Author not identified, but probably written by the assistant steward. Copies of added note by Brigadier H C Cole praising Captain Harrison and crew addressed to Lawrence Holt, Ocean Steam Ship Company. Mentions taking aboard casualities from Lancastria, Cunard Line, sunk 17 June 1940.