Motor Launches for Free French
(British Official Wireless.) Received Mondav, 9.30 p.m. RUGBY, Aug. 31. A division of motor-launches built in Britain and manned by Bretons of the Fiee French Navy, for service with the British naval forces, was blessed by the French navnl padre at a south coast port to-day and they were commissioned on behalf of General de Gaulle by ViceAdmiral Muselier, commanding the Free French naval forces in Britain. Each boat is named after a Breto* saint and the ceremony fell on St. Anne’s Day which is commemorated by all Bretons. It was the first ceremony of its kind in Britain. Each ship carries a flag presented by the Association of Bretons in the Free French
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Manawatu Times, Volume 66, Issue 208, 2 September 1941, Page 4
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