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Etoile Polaire
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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: French Vessel
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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ETOILE POLAIRE (L.4125) French M.E.V. [Dater] This ship 1s reported to have taken part available. in Dynamo, but no details are Authority - Ministere de la Marine Marchande, Paris. Etoila Polaire AD 390 aux. M/S. Second Maihe de manacure guinole was in Ostend and sailed the 28th of May with the French Naval Party ostend. Called in Folkestone the Same day at 20 00 Did not take part to Dynamo Note by Cdr. Cras of French Historical Dept. 298 299
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Operation Dynamo Map — Movement Logs
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