HMS Twickenham unloads at Cherbourg

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This picture taken on the 28th of July 1944 shows HMS Twickenham unloading its cargo of locomotives and rolling stock at Cherbourg. The Twickenham was a civilian train ferry impressed into service at the start of the war.

www.doverferryphotos.co.uk/pastandpresent/twick.htm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS_Twickenham_Ferry

In the forground is a 4t 6x6, Truck, Wrecker Diamond T969A with a Ernest Holmes W-45HD crane and a Gar Wood winch.