Leeuwarden

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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: C

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.

No Lloyd’s records.

Document Collections — Tagged Pages

3 pages

Imaged document collections containing pages whose OCR text or table data has been tagged with the name Leeuwarden. 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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Page 713

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Matching table OCR

Bruzzo, Flli. Drr. Benedetto & Giacomo. Piazza Rovere 7, Genoa.-R.Y.C.I. Aria

Bryon, H., 26, Wavertree Road, Streatham Hill, London, S. W.2.-Med. C. Osprey (P.O.) 4

Buck, Horace M., 2, Montrose Street West, Helensburgh, Dumbartonshire.-S.M.Y.C. m. Tremona 22

Buisman, R., Willemskade 7, Leeuwarden, Holland. Mercurius 6

Bullock, Capt. P. C., Cavalry Club, 127, Piccadilly, London, W.1.-Crz.-Ocn. a. Valfreya 13

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Page 848

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Matching table OCR

Vanderbilt, George, Sands Point, Port Washington, Long Island, N.Y., U.S.A. a. Pioneer	van der Meulen, B. J., Emmakade 15, Leeuwarden, Holland. m. Mahilger 16	Van Halteren, C. E., 6, Rue Maurice des Ombiaux, Brussels. Bxl.-C.A.-Ost. m. Poodle 16	van Kempen, Ch., c/o W. L. van Kempen, Oranje Nassaulaan 18, Amsterdam.-Nld. Silverking 5	Van Wyk, G., Woubrugsche Jachtwerf, Woubrugge, Holland. a. Breezand 49
m. Vara - Vim (See page 608)	van de Rydt, Chr. N., Emmakade, 53, Leeuwarden, Holland. m. Scotia 20	van Hattem, Ir. P. C.S., 3, Frederik Hendriklaan, The Hague, Holland.-Kag. m. Troubadour 13	van Lanschot, G. J. A., Blesboklaan 6, Hilversum, Holland. Nld. a. Brabantia 18	Vatis, Demetre J., Heyden Street No. 8, Athens, Greece. Gre. m. Goissa 21

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 313

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OCR text

REPAIRS & S. REPLACEMENTS d.
TOTAL LOSS
REM
VESSEL
TYPE
CLAIMANT
PAPER NO.
HIRE & EXS.
£.
£.
S.
d.
£.
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"Lady Cable"
m.b.
C.W. Mott
TM 4237/40
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5.
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"Lady Haig"
m.v.
W. Buck
TM 4095/40
7.
H.W. Harvey
5.
15.
2.
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52.
W. Buck
20.
9.
"Lady Isabelle"
m.b.
J. Tims & Sons
TM 3760/40
5.
11.
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15.
F. Westhead
"Lady Kay"
m.v.
Watercraft Ltd.
TM 3753/40
23.
17.
7.
G. Spicer
14.
11.
i
120.
W.M. Elliott
"Lady Rita"
m.y.
D. Hillyard
TM 4102/40
15.
11.
3.
A.P.S
650.
"Lansdowne"
m.v.
V.Messum & Son
TM 3736/40
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15.
"Lark"
Punt
A. Fayers, Ltd.
TM 4266/40
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"Leach's Romance"
m.v.
R. Leach & Sons
TO 9561/40
26.
17.
10.
Re-allocated.Spl.Admy.S
(G.M.268)
"Little O'Lady"
m.v.
"
"
11
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TO 9567/40
26.
17.
10.
Re-allocated Spl.Admy.Serv
B.M.61.
"Lent Lily"
m.v.
Jubilee Fish
TO 9565/40
24.
1.
i
Co. Ltd.
"Letitia"
m. V.
E.A. Leppard
TM 4004/40
10.
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Chichester Yacht
33.
11.
12.
11.
i
Co. Ltd.
W.E. Browning
1250.
"Liberty"
m.v.
K.C. Frisby
TM 4067/40
2.
15.
5.
Anglo American
3.
8.
Oil Co. Ltd.
"Leilah"
m. V.
L.R. Burnay
TM 4058/40
2.
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125.
J. Mears Ltd.
4.
15.
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L.R. Burnay
2.
11.
6.
"Lieberstrum"
m.v.
H.C. Hunt
TO 9179/40
51.
10.
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45.
10.
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"Lijns"
m. V.
S.H. Bell
TM 3738/40
45.
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i
128.
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"Leander"
m.b.
J.T. Phelps
TM 4141/40
14.
8.
5.
9.
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"Leader"
m
m.b.
C. Westcott
TM 7713/40
600.
i
Beached River Dart
"Little Mint"
W. Coleman
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3.
3.
7.
"Little Ann"
a.y.
G.A. Turnour
TM 4425/40
600.
i
"Lady be Good"
m. V.
P. Newall,
TM 4440/40
2.
1.
11.
Petticrow Ltd.
"Little Admiral"
LN.85
C.A. Pegg
TM 5095/40
6.
15.
9.
"Lady Anne"
m.b.
E. Clare
TM 5227/40
9.
!
4.
"London Premier"
m.v.
W.D. Tamlyn & Co.
TM 5261/40
21.
16.
1.
"Lady Lou"
m.v.
Sussex Yacht
TM 5434/40
47.
6.
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Works Ltd.
"Lady Nancy"
m.b.
W. Osborne Ltd.
TM 5110/40
7.
i
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"Liberty II"
m.v.
W.C. Craske
TM 5479/40
5.
14.
10.
"Leslie"
S.Bge.
Andrews & Ellis
TO 9303/40
20.
i
i
"Lark"
S.Bge.
T.Scholey & Co.
TO 9315/40
50.
3.
6.
795.
i
Ltd.
"Leeuwarden"
S.S.
Gen. Stm. Nav. Co.
TM 4270/40
195.
17.
4.
Ltd.
"Lady Rosebery"
Aux.S.Bge.
S. West Ltd.
TO 9306/40
17.
18.
2.
i
i
"Leonard Piper"
Bge.
Geo. Hammond & Co.
TO 8532/40
1.
2.
8.
3120.
"Lord Fisher"
S.D.
Lowestoft Stm.
TM 7392/40
17.
-.
LT.711
Herring Drifters
i
Co. Ltd.
"Lady Doris"
m.v.
C.W. Bone
TM 5004/40
4.
4.
-.
"Lily"
Row.Bt.
J. Gisby
TM 9576/40
5.
7.
6.
20.

Operation Dynamo Map — Movement Logs

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