Chasseur 10

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ORDE: 1 · SCSL: 0 · Lloyd’s: 0 · Red List: 0

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ORDE Registry

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1 potential matching record has been identified.

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Small Craft Service List

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Red List (1939–40) — OCR

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Ship Details

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Ship type: French Submarine Chaser

Lloyd’s Yacht Register (1939)

Source: Lloyd’s Register Foundation, Heritage & Education Centre, Lloyd’s Register of Yachts 1939, digitised via Internet Archive. Licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0. Images have been converted, resized and watermarked for web display; machine-generated table OCR has been added.

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Document Collections — Tagged Pages

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NMM 940.542.1 1940 Orde vol i

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Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.

Details

Page 184

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OCR text

CHASSEUR 10
French S/M chaser
Maitre Principal
Timonier Mazo.
There movements. is very little information about this vessel's
27th May
Alongside a quay at Dunkirk.
30th May
0200
Ch.5 secured alongside Ch.10 which was
alongside a quay in Dunkirk harbour.
1st June
Ch.10 was still in Dunkirk harbour.
There is no further information
about her movements, but she
subsequently arrived at Havre.
It appears doubtful if Chasseur 10 took any
active part in Operation Dynamo.
182

Operation Dynamo Map — Movement Logs

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Movements recorded for Chasseur 10 during the evacuation period, as plotted on the Operation Dynamo map.

Departed	Route	Arrived	Troops	Notes	Source
—	Dunkirk	—	—	Stationary Location recorded; complete dated movement unavailable	NMM 940.542.1 1940 Orde vol i, page 184

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