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personnel and stores had been evacuated since the commencement of this operation:-
136,549 British troops, of whom 2,488 were casualties.
12,716 Allied troops.
310 guns, 2,292 vehicles, 919 tons of ammunition and 981 tons of stores. Demolitions were carried out by H.M.S. Beagle at Bordeaux and La Pallice.
10. On the 26th June, while searching for a French merchant vessel off the Gironde, H.M. Canadian Destroyer Fraser came into collision with H.M.S. Calcutta and was cut in half. Casualties were only slight. On the same day all neutral merchant vessels in the Gironde area were successfully rounded up by H.M. Destroyers Broke, Vanquisher and Witherington.
Channel Islands.
11 Refugees from St. Helier (Jersey) were evacuated in three transports assisted by Dutch schoots on the 20th, and on the 21st there was a similar evacuation from Guernsey. The Governor of Jersey arrived at Portland on the 21st.
French Fleet.
12. On receipt of information on the evening of the 22nd, from the British Military Liaison Officer at Bordeaux, that France had signed an armistice with Germany, C.-in-C. Portsmouth and C.-in-C. Western Approaches were instructed not to allow French warships at Portsmouth and Plymouth to proceed to sea.
13. The Battleship Jean Bart has arrived at Casablanca and the Battleship Richelieu, after leaving Dakar on the 25th, was recalled there on the 26th. The Cruiser Emile Bertin arrived at Martinique on the 26th with bullion.
14. The dispositions of the main units are given in Appendix IV. The situation with regard to their disposal is still obscure, but the trend of the latest information is that little reliance can be placed on the French navy as a whole to frustrate the terms of the armistice.
On the 24th the Bordeaux Government instructed all French warships and merchant ships at sea not to proceed to British ports or French Atlantic ports, but to go to French North Africa or Mediterranean ports.
Other Operations in Home Waters.
16. A Canadian troop convoy arrived at Liverpool on the 20th June. On the same day seven enemy destroyers were attacked by a Coastal Command aircraft off Terschelling and it was thought that one destroyer was hit.
17. On the 21st an enemy gunboat and two merchant vessels were sunk by aircraft at Willemsoord (Texel). On the 22nd five E-boats were attacked by a Coastal Command aircraft off Terschelling without result.
18. The Polish Submarine Wilk after suffering damage while on patrol from an external explosion (which caused serious leaks and reduced her speed to 4 knots) arrived safely at Dundee on the 25th. The Dutch Submarine 0. 13, being overdue from patrol in the North Sea, is presumed lost.
Mediterranean.
19. On the 20th June twelve Swordfish of the Fleet Air Arm arrived at Malta.
20. A force consisting of H.M. Ships Orion, Neptune, Sydney and the French Battleship Lorraine, with destroyers in company, carried out a bombard- ment of military objectives at Bardia on the 21st June. Good results were obtained. The French Cruisers Suffren and Duguay-Trouin and British destroyers carried out a sweep along the coast as far as Mersa Tobruk at the same time without result.
21. On the 21st June the floating dock at Malta was bombed by aircraft and badly damaged.
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