SS Levenwood (1924)
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SS Levenwood was a Joseph Constantine Steamship Co Ltd vessel which sailed as a coaster along the North Sea coast of eastern England between 1924 and 1946.
Dunkirk evacuation
The 800 ton store ship distinguished itself at Dunkirk on Friday 31 May 1940. The vessel was armed as a DEMS ship by soldiers of the Royal Lancashire Regiment and rescued soldiers from the Bray Dunes area of the beach during Operation Dynamo. The ship's crew's decorations are listed in the Dunkirk lists at Greenwich as one awarded DSC (Captain William Oswald Young) and two DSM's (Fireman Robert Moody) and (Gunner George Knight).[1]
This vessel was damaged towards the end of the war and renamed SS Devenbrook in 1946.
References
- ↑ The Twenty Five Days John Masefield 2003 Pen & Sword Books ISBN 9781844150373}
