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Frans

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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 type: D

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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Lloyd’s Yacht Register (1939)
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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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6050 Saga Wood Yawl - 13 25 500 - 37.0 11:0 80 A.Plym A.Anderson Stockholm 1894 Frans Kockum Malmo
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Kjellgren, Hjalmar, Sibyllegatan 58, Stockholm. K.S.S.S. a. Alone 8 Knifton, E. S., Alpha, Mill Lane, Walton-on-Naze, Essex.-Wlt. a. Cascade - Knowles, A. L., 3, Penlu Terrace, Tuckingmill, Camborne, Cornwall. m. Whaup 7 Kockum, Frans, Regementsgatan 12, Malmö, Sweden. Dan.-K.S.S.S.-Mmo.-Svn. Saga 25 Koolhoven, S.F. W., Molendijk, 149, Rhoon, Holland. Maas.-Ned.
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Verkade, Frans, Westzijde 87, Zaandam, Holland. Nid. Vertens, Karl, Winning, b/Schleswig, Germany. Wel. m. Amhilma 7 Kookaburra 3 Vincent, B. T., 30, Millbrook Road, Southampton, Hants.-Key. Visser, F. Prins, Milletstraat 56, Amsterdam.-NId.
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Source: The National Archives, Kew, ADM 199 2429. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.

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HEKTOR FRANS (Belgian Economic (Be) 1938 109 AP 8.10.40 .12.41
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Source: The National Archives, Kew, MT 40 36 Pt 2. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.

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OCR text
QUEST
ORIGIN
FILLING STATION FOR
HURLINGHAM YACHT
CLUB
MOORINGS OFF
PETROL.OIL & WATER.
WANDSWORTH PARK AND
HURLINGHAM.
LANDING STAGES
AND DRY DOCK.
43A DEODAR ROAD
137
impegop
PUTNEY S.W.15
Telephone
PUTNEY 3209
29. Burstock Road
Putney S. W.15.
Hirector of Sia Frans hand.
October 5ᵗʰ 1940.
Diar Sir,
Re burcular letter T.O. 9144 / STN 6 B.
In submitting to you a record of The
happenings of my boat "QUEST". with impelf and
friend as crew, 2 Lane to confess that this doco not
make very eseciting reading. I am. mementheless
quickd by the advice and opinion escpressed by others
of the ministry of Shipping. to the effect that such
Lappenings would make a suitable pictorial
introduction to a film they Lane in mind pontraying
the efforts of amateur Jacktomen to do an in their
Dunkink. Lawer to assist in the wasnation of the B. b. 7. from
I am. at the request of the ministry of
shipping. lianing the eaternal condition of "Quest"
exactly as she arrived back from Dunkink.
The engine is being put back into working
over with them who to Dunkirk. informed us He that returned as the on weather Tuesday further had and deteriorated we use reported for our
to C.O. Davies boats would be used and he had no borrowed
no services. more small We obtained our clearance paper and, with a
chart and compass started for London.
of the worst experiences of tossed the whole about job like for a
a
heavy it and at 10 p.m. Tuesday morning and, after
Here sea began was running one and our little boat was night we anchored in the
cork Swale. but we An made early start was made on Wednesday being/
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