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These little circa 40ft-long motor launches are the "San Toy I" and "San Toy II" owned by Messrs A.E.Brand and W.H.Wilson, T/as the Southend Motor Navigation Co., whose who little flotilla of 7 pleasure boats was requisitioned by the Royal Navy on 28th May, 1940, for "service at Dunkirk", and the survivors of that Operation seem to have been retained for further war service as harbour tenders and auxiliaries. See "ADM208/3 -The red List...." in the sections on the Nore and Dover Divisions. Only one of those seven boats was returned to the S.M.N.C o. after May, 1945. '