Heather Bell

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ORDE: 0 · SCSL: 0 · Lloyd’s: 1 · Red List: 10

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ORDE Registry

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Small Craft Service List

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Red List (1939–40) — OCR

10 records

10 potential matching records have been identified.

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Ship Details

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Ship type: Lynn Fishing 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.

Details

Ship: Heather Bell

Page: Lloyds_Register_of_Yachts_1939_0648

Document Collections — Tagged Pages

9 pages

Imaged document collections containing pages whose OCR text or table data has been tagged with the name Heather Bell. 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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Details

Page 250

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Matching table OCR

2844

Heather Bell Wood

TwnSc

6'28

312

102 48

J.Crossfield

Conway

2 Petrol Motors

W. W. Stansby

Caernarvn

2845

Heather Bell Wood

AuxBm

87 55

Jas.A.Silver,

Rosneath

2 Petrol Motors

D. F. B. Drew

Shandon

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Page 649

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Matching table OCR

a. Citara

m. Heather Bell

Margaret

a. Osprey

m. Southerly Breeze

m. Aba

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Page 658

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Matching table OCR

Twins IV 4

a. Heather Bell

m. Sea Kestrel

(See also Lloyd's Register

Crouch, Essex

(Formerly Lymington

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Page 663

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Matching table OCR

Chirta III 11

m. Talisman 17

m. Tamarisk 27

a. Vema 822

m. Heather Bell 12

Dryad I

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Page 680

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Matching table OCR

m. Mho.re 87

a. Heather Bell

607)

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Page 736

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Matching table OCR

Lee Shore, 328, Sandbanks Road, Parkstone, Dorset.-Bxm.-Hmy.-Isl.- Pks. a. Minoru 21

Drew,D. F. . B., Glenarm, Paisley, Renfrewshire. C.Crz. a. Heather Bell -

Drummond, A. C. H., 49, Charing Cross. London, S.W.1. R.Y.S.-Crz. a. Quest III 23

du Chaffaut, Jules Amaudric, 280, rue Paradis, Marseilles.-Msl. a. Clorinda 8

Duggan, G. H., 3636, McTavish Street, Montreal, Canada. a. Kingarvie 52

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Page 837

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Matching table OCR

Stansby, W. W., Hotel Plas Llanfair," Anglesey. m. Heather Bell 12

Steele, A. D., Gowlands Ramp, Gibraltar.-Gib. Wasp 5

m. Sunbeam 11 Stenhammar, Ove,

Carrara, Devonshire Road, Bognor Regis. Sussex.-Del. m. Hern 8

Stevens, Harry W., Castle Cliffe, Castle Hill, Guildford, Surrey.-C.A.

TNA ADM 199 2429 SMALL CRAFT SERVICE LIST

TNA

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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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Page 121

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Matching table OCR

HEATHER BELL (R. B. Williamson) HEATHER

MFB

1903

R(T98B)

24.5.40

£21.16.

TNA MT 40 36 Pt 2

TNA

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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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Page 311

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OCR text

REPAIRS & REPLACEMENTS
TOTAL D
VESSEL
TYPE
CLAIMANT
PAPER NO.
HIRE & EXS.
£.
S.
d.
£.
£.
S.
d.
124.
-.
!
"HASTAWAY"
S.Bge.
S.J.Peters
T.M.3915/40
216.
!
"
12.
10.
287.
"HANORA"
M.V.
C.E.Thompson
T.0.9176/40
CrescentTrade
277.
7.
2.
Facilities Ltd.
240.
i
"HAZARD"
M.V.
Crescent Trade
T.M.3768/40
Facilities Ltd.
3.
8.
"HILDA"
3.
M.F.B.
R.A.Newman & Sons
T.O.9337/40
"HOPEFUL"
M.F.B.
D.Hillyard
T.M.4105/40
5.
6.
5.
24.
5.
"HOUND"
M.V.
Pickfords Ltd.
T.M.4368/40
69.
13.
8.
4.
"HEATHER BELL"
M.B.
H.Loose
T.M.6098/40
4.
18.
9.
"HANDY BILLY"
M.L.
F.Kinson & Son
T.M.5752/40
13.
18.
6.
200.
"HERON"
6.
10.
M.B.
C.W.Mott
T.M.5237/40
18.
10.
!
"HENRY JAMES"
M.B.
Mr.Mitchell
T.M.9123/40
4.
3.
8.
"HEART OF GOLD"
M.B.
J.Walker
T.M.8970/40
11.
3.
9.
70.
10.
!
"H.A.C."
S.Bge.
H.A.Cunis Ltd.
T.0.9302/40
221.
10.
10.
275.
16.
3.
H.W.Harvey
14.
9.
10.
16.
4.
!
"HAROLD MARGETTS"
S.Bge.
Port Edn.Authority.TO. 9312/40
5.
5.
"HAPPY RETURNS"
M.V.
J.T.W.Saunders
T.M.4960/40
6.
13.
10.
(F.E.5)
"HAWFINCH"
M.V.
A.Grant
T.M.4979/40
5.
5.
"
(N.N41)
"HIBERNIA"
M.V.
M.F.Hardy
T.M.5003/40
4.
18.
8.
12.
6.
(N.N47)
3.
14.
"HURLINGHAM"
M.V.
J.Mears Ltd.
T.M.3719/40
See under "Jeff"
"HIS MAJESTY"
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11
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Operation Dynamo Map — Movement Logs

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