COTE D'AZUR

Important context

These are vessels recorded as having some association or possible involvement with Operation Dynamo. This is not a definitive list of participating ships, and inclusion does not establish that a vessel reached Dunkirk, evacuated personnel or otherwise took part. A source record may exist because a claim was investigated, qualified or rejected; for example, an Orde entry may expressly state that the vessel did not participate. Always review the underlying records and source notes before drawing a conclusion.

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Participation source and OCR references

Included from Wikipedia – List of ships at Dunkirk . These collection pages contain a matching vessel-name reference.

NMM 940.542.1 1940 Orde vol i — page 181 (OCR #1025)
…eturned unsuccessful. to Dunkirk, the attempt being 26th May - Moored at buoy OW. 27th May 0530 A bomb dropped between the Ch.5 and the P/V Cote d'Azur, (or the Cote d'Argent). The Ch.5 opened fire. 0600 Second air attack. Ch.5 and Ch.6 opened fire. 28th May 2100ca Sailed for Dover, with Fr…
NMM 940.542.1 1940 Orde vol i — page 214 (OCR #1058)
…COTE D'AZUR French mail boat, transferred to the orders of V.A. Dover. The Cote D'Azur was sunk by bombs before her first trip, and took no part in Operation Dynamo. Cote d 'Azur - Capitaine are long Cours BERTOLOTTI Note by Cdr. Cras of French Historical Dept. 210…
TNA ADM 199 792 — page 116 (OCR #2196)
…om the French coast between Boulogne and Cherbourg, and employed d mainly off the beach. In addition the French mail packets COTE D'ARGENT, COTE D'AZUR, NEWHAVEN and ROUEN were transferred to the orders of the Vice Admiral, Dover, and were employed as required side by side with the British…
TNA ADM 199 792 — page 571 (OCR #2651)
…from the French coast between Boulogne and Cherbourg, and employed mainly off the beach. In addition the French mail packets COTE D'ARGENT, COTE D'AZUR, NEWHAVEN and ROUEN were transferred to the orders of the Vice Admiral, Dover, and were employed as required side by side with the British…
TNA MT 40 36 — page 225 (OCR #7049)
…MONA'S QUEEN BEN-MY-CREE NEWHAVEN BIARRITZ NEPHRITE (Store Ship) CANTERBURY NGAROMA CLAN MACALISTER NORMANIA COTE D'ARGENT PARIS (Hospital) COTE D'AZUR PRAGUE DINARD (Hospital) PRINCESS MAUD DORIAN ROSE (Store Ship) QUEEN OF THE CHANNEL FENELLA ROEBUCK FOAM QUEEN ROUEN ISLE OF GUERNSEY (Hos…
TNA MT 40 66 — page 17 (OCR #7109)
…EEN BEN-MY-CREE NEWHAVEN BIARRITZ NEPHRITE (Store Ship) CANTERBURY NGAROMA CLAN MACALISTER NORMANIA COTE D'ARGENT } french PARIS (Hospital) COTE D'AZUR PRAGUE DINARD (Hospital) PRINCESS MAUD DORIAN ROSE (Store Ship) QUEEN OF THE CHANNEL FENELLA ROEBUCK FOAM QUEEN ROUEN ISLE OF GUERNSEY (Hos…

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

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ORDE Registry

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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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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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Imaged document collections containing pages whose OCR text or table data has been tagged with the name COTE D'AZUR. Open a collection to view the page images and transcriptions.

Lloyd’s Yacht Register (1939)

Internet Archive / Lloyd’s Register Foundation Heritage Centre

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