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Minefields and shelling from German batteries on the French coast forced evacuation convoys to take longer routes to Dunkirk. The first convoy, after sustaining heavy air attacks, found the port of Dunkirk and its oil tanks ablaze and only the passenger ferries ‘Royal Daffodil’ and later the ‘Canterbury’ succeeded in berthing. By the end of the first day only 7,500 troops had been rescued and it was clearly impossible to use the port. Captain Tennant, in charge of the naval shore party at Dunkirk, signalled for the rescue ships to be diverted to the beaches east of the town. But here shallow waters prevented the large ships getting within a mile of the shore and troops had to be ferried in smaller craft from the beaches to the ships. There was an alternative, a spindly concrete pier with a wooden walkway, never designed to have ships docking against it but it was found that it could be used. Differences in loading speeds were dramatic HMS ‘Sabre’ took 2 hours to load 100 troops from the beach, but from the pier it took only 35 minutes to board 500 troops.
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http://www.dover-kent.co.uk/history/ww2b_dunkirk.htm
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They were rescued from the harbour and beaches near to Dunkirk by a curious assembly of many different types of craft.
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/765004.stm
I did up the patrols for Dunkirk in 1.03
May have to look at that again but too many and they spend more time avoiding each other than patrolling
Damn AI collision routines