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Goldfinch
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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: Cargo Ship
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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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.
Details
| 7611 | Wagtail | Wood | c.b.Slp Goldfinch | — 4 | 220 22.0 21.5 | 7.5 - 45 1.75 | R.J.Perkins &Sons P.Fraser | Whitstable 1926 | Peter Fraser | Whitstable |
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| 7720 | Westerly Wood | BmCut Goldfinch, | - 5 | 230 23.0 | 8.2 5:0 | 42 3:5 | F.H.Wells& Co. | Gravesend 1937 | Cyril J. Allen | Gravesend |
Source: The National Archives, Kew, ADM 199 2429. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
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| ANTRIM (Humphery & Grey (Lighterage), Ltd.) ANTWERP see GOLDFINCH ANWAR | DB | R(T98B) | 130 DIV | CS MS(MC) | 30.10.40 | 6.41 |
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| GOLDFINCH (Vokins & Co. Ltd.) | DB | R(T98B) = | 145 DW # | CS Misc.N. | 25. 6.41 2044 | 2.44 | £15.2.1 |
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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CRS/S ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION. SERVICES OF THE RAMSGATE OTOR LIFE-BOAT, "PRUDENTIAL", 80 IN CONNEXION WITH THE EVACUATION OF DUNKIRK. Report by the Honorary Secretary, Captain J. Houghton, East Cliff House, Ramsgate. 1100/30 Ramsgate Hon. Sec. was summoned by Admiral Somerville to the office of N.O.I.C. Ramsgate, and instructed to place life- boat at disposal of Naval Authorities, fully manned, fuelled and stored for service in DUNKIRK: Coxswain and other members volunteered to serve: Instructions were given to load various stores and coils of rope, and to tow eight craft of various types, mostly wherries (loaded with cansof fresh water for the troops) manned by naval ratings to a given destination, and upon arrival to render all possible assistance in ferrying troops from the beach to the waiting ships, and towing the smaller boats to and fro in this service. S Request by Hon. Sec. that those who had volunteered should be supplied and fitted with respirators and shrapnel helmets was granted; this was done and after loading stores and assuring themselves the lines for towing were satisfactorily and securely connected, life-boat sailed at 1420/30. 0630/1 Life-boat returned. Coxswain's report attached. 0700/1 Re-moored. les id This service was rendered during the greater part of Thursday, all Thursday night, Friday, Friday night and part of Saturday, under fire from enemy airplanes, and other implements of war: I respectfully submit the men concerned are deserving of the greatest credit and admiration for their courage and determina- tion in the successful manipulation of the Life-boat and the wherries they manned without hesitation, and their successful transfer of over two thousand eight hundred British, French and Belgian troops to comparative safety from the insecurity of the open beach by their individual efforts, with explosives bursting round them continually; the Life-boat bears many scars significant of the ordeal. Should the institution consider this service worthy of high consideration, may I in all sincerity, if in zealous excess of my privilege, put forward the names of H. Knight (Coxswain), A. Moody (Acting 2nd Coxswain) T.H. Read (Asst. M.M.) and A. Liddle (one of the crew) for consideration for the award of your Gold Medal, and E. Attwood (M. Mechanic) C. Knight (aged 69) E. Cooper, I. Hawks and T. Goldfinch (crew) for consideration for the award of your Silver Medal. (signed) J. Houghton Hon. Sec. a. she had to 1 when
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