COLLECTIONS DIRECTORY

Explore the Operation Dynamo Archive

Browse the vessels, people, honours and documentary indexes connected with the Dunkirk evacuation. Records are research aids and may contain omissions or transcription errors; verify important details against the linked source images and holding archives.

INDEXED SOURCES

Principal documentary collections

Lt Col G. P. Orde’s List

An alphabetical research record of vessels associated with Operation Dynamo and their services.

Red Book / Red List

Searchable OCR and page images from Admiralty wartime vessel lists.

Small Craft Service List

Working boats, yachts, small vessels and associated personnel records.

Lloyd’s Yacht Register, 1939

Pre-war registration and identification context for indexed yachts.

Admiralty Records (Coming Soon)

Operation Dynamo reports, correspondence, operational summaries and related Admiralty papers from The National Archives. These records are currently being processed and will be added to the searchable archive as cataloguing and transcription are completed.