ships left guernsey on 26 and 27 september with 825 deportees, including 9 from sark. guernsey borrowed two field kitchens from the germans and cooked the “evacuees”, as the germans referred to them, a meal. the ships departed after curfew. a third batch of 560 left jersey on 29 september 1942. the jersey sailing resulted in more crowds, singing and yet more violence and arrests.