A board his sailing barge, Pudge in May 1940, Bill Watson was at London’s Millwall Docks when he received orders from the Naval Control Service to take the tow rope of the tug Ocean Cock, bound for Dover. He had been about to load wheat for Ipswich, instead he was now ordered to load soldiers from the beaches of Dunkirk.
A day later, a stick of explosives dropped from a Stuka dive bomber
