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ESK
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Wikipedia vessel details
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- Name
- HMS Esk (H15)
- Pennant number
- H15
- Flag
- Royal Navy
- Description
- Destroyer
- Built
- 1934
- Tonnage
- 1,375
- Commanding officer
- Lt. Cdr. Richard Hullis Couch, RN
- Trips to Dunkirk
- 6
- Troops landed
- 3,100
- Notes
- Damaged by shore gunfire off Bray on 31 May; repaired after Dynamo
Dunkirk-related passages from the linked page
Dunkirk 1940 On 10 May, Esk, Express, Intrepid and Princess Victoria laid 236 mines off Bergen, North Holland, and on 15 May, she joined with Express and Ivanhoe to lay 164 mines off the Hook of Holland. Three German minesweepers, M 61, M 89, and M 136, were sunk by this minefield on 26 July.[11] The ship joined the evacuation of Allied troops from Dunkirk on 29 May. Esk evacuated 3904 troops between 29 May and 3 June, including over 1,000 French troops rescued from the TSS Scotia, which was sinking after German air attacks. After repairs to the minor damage suffered by the ship during the evacuation, she resumed her previous duties.[6] Winser, John de D. (1999). B.E.F. Ships Before, At and After Dunkirk. Gravesend, Kent: World Ship Society. ISBN 0-905617-91-6. SS Scotia at Dunkirk Archived 5 June 2013 at the Wayback Machine
ORDE Registry
14 records14 potential matching records have been identified.
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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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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
| Skinner, Russell F., Pendeen, Wargrave, Berks.-Hen. Tons | Slagt, W. G., Straatweg 174, Hillegersberg, Holland. Tons | Smales, Maj. Lawrence, M.C., Esk Hall, Sleights, Yorks.-W.Ils.-Yrk. | Smellie, James R., 6, Green Hill, London, N.W.3. Cly.-L.S.-Mer.-Ocn.(R.C.)-Trd. Tons | Smith, A. R., Oldbury Place, Ightham, Kent.-Bnm.- St.M.-Tms. Tons |
Operation Dynamo Map — Movement Logs
Movements recorded for ESK during the evacuation period, as plotted on the Operation Dynamo map.
| Departed | Route | Arrived | Troops | Notes | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| — | Dunkirk | — | — |
Stationary
HMS report explicitly names this location; a complete dated movement is unavailable
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TNA ADM 116 4649, page 44 |
| — | Dover | — | — |
Stationary
HMS report explicitly names this location; a complete dated movement is unavailable
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TNA ADM 116 4649, page 44 |
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