Then she saw action in the initial landings on the coast of southern France.
Percy was in danger, and she could not go to him, because the wind happened to blow from the coast of France.
Two days later he made landfall on the coast of France.
"That came out very easily," he said from a vantage point 220 miles above the coast of France.
She sank off the coast of France in 1999, causing a major environmental disaster.
The ship continued to serve on escort assignments off the coast of France after the war.
During this time his unit guarded the west coast of France.
Jersey is an island off the northwest coast of France.
It was lost in a mistral off the coast of France after having lived aboard only three weeks.
'We shall be getting on towards the coast of France by then,' he said.