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Dromedary
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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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- Ship type: Naval Tug
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
4 pagesImaged document collections containing pages whose OCR text or table data has been tagged with the name Dromedary. Open a collection to view the page images and transcriptions.
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DROMEDARY(1) Tug S/Lt. T. Lawrie, R.N.V.R. [s/Lt. Lawrie had previously been over to Dunkirk in the M/B Wings of the Morning] 3rd June a.m. Left Ramsgate for Dunkirk, p.m. On arrival at Dunkirk, the tug was not required. The tug stood by until the operation was ending and was then ordered back to Ramsgate. Nil Authority . - R.O.II, p.530. (1) Not mentioned in D.R. 255
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TUGS (continued) Portsmouth Dockyard c.9 Prima Dover Harbour Board Lady Brassey H.M.Tugs St. Abbs St. Fagan St. Clears St. Olaves 400 The following tug also went over to Dunkirk: Dromedary THE FOLLOWING TUGS CARRIED OUT HARBOUR DUTIES ONLY: Gondia Hibernia William Watkins Ltd. Simla Watercock The Gamecock Steam Towing Co. Betty Gaselee and Son Ltd. C.11 Portsmouth Dockyard. Vesta - 245
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WINGS OF THE MORNING (1) M/B Lord Dunboyne) R.E. S/Lt. Button,Skipper. a.m. Left in Littlehampton, company. the M/B Windsong R.N.V.R. 30th May p.m. Arrived Dover. - - Windsorg in company. the the Jianning. taken in repaired. Decided id. - Dover. 1st June 0700 Left Dover, with the Windsong and 4 other boats in tow of the dfr. Kindred company. Star. The dfr. Thrifty in - Arrived Dunkirk. Sent a 12 ft. boat into the beach to collect troops. She was blown up by bombs. Four ships were also blown up. p.m. Wings of the Morning proceeded. 2nd June - Arrived Ramsgate, where the boat was turned over to the Navy - and the crew returned to Littlehampton. S/Lt. Lawrie (who had already been to Dunkirk in the M/B Maldon Annie IV) then took command. p.m. Left Ramsgate with a number of other boats, when within a few miles of - Dunkirk, was ordered by a M.T.B. to return to Ramsgate. Nil [on 3rd June, S/Lt. Lawrie took command of the tug Dromedary Authority - J.D.C. R.O.II, p.533. (1) S/Lt. Lawrie refers to this vessel as"Wind of the Morning."
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| Dromedary (S/Lt. T. Lawrie, R.N.V.R.) | - |
Operation Dynamo Map — Movement Logs
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