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Semois
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- Ship type: Belgian River Launch
- Return status: sunk
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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SEMOIS (ex-Belgian canal boat) This vesse vas lost during Operation Dynamo. L 27th gay p- I 1 er ik = 1 1)1 120
Source: The National Archives, Kew, ADM 199 792. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
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| LE DESCHAMPS | SEMOIS (Belgian Launch) |
Source: The National Archives, Kew, ADM 234 360. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
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LIST OF BRITISH SHIPS APPENDIX A TROOPS TRANSPORTED MOTOR BOATS, LAUNCHES AND VESSELS (contd.) Sea Falcon' - (L/Sea. A. Westbrook) Scencshifter1 - Sea Foam - Seamew - Sea Roamer 2 (Lieut. J. Bald, R.N.V.R.) Seasalter 70 (L. W. Salmon, Skipper) Semois 2 - Shamrock - (A. Barrell, Owner, Skipper) Silicia 314 Silver Foam - Silver Moon - (Actg. S/Lt. B. D. O. MacIntyre, R.N.) Silver Queen1 100 (S/Lt. ?) (A.B. P. T. Sullivan, C/JX 147897) Silvery Breeze - Singapore 5 (S/Lt. J. W. Pratt, R.N.V.R.) Singapore II - (S/Lt. F. E. Greenfell, R.N.V.R.) Skylark I - (S/Lt. E. C. B. Mares, R.N.V.R.) (S/Lt. H. McClelland, R.N.V.R.) Skylark II — Skylark III¹ - Skylark III - (Sto. G. Bramhall) Skylark LL. III¹ - Skylark III(S.M.281.11) - Skylark 6 - (Cadet Rating, G. R. Prince) Skylark (Southend) 50 (P.O. R.A. Smith, R.F.R. and crew of 5) Skylark - (S/Lt. M. J. R. Yeatman, R.N.V.R.) Small Viking 62 Southend Britannia - (Lieut. G.L. Norton, R.N.V.R.) Southern Queen I (S/Lt. B.G.P. de Mattos, R.N.V.R.) Southern Queen (P.L.17) - Spinaway - Stonehaven¹ - Summer Maid (P.E. 42) - Sundowner 122 (Cdr. G. H. Lightoller, D.S.C., R.N.R., (Retd.) owner-Skipper) Sunshine / Survey - Tenias 100 Thark I (S/Lt. A. Carew-Hunt, R.N.) Thetis - (T. Towndrow, Scoutmaster, Mortlake Sea Scouts) Thorneycroft M/B Not known Thyforsa 66 Tigris I - (H. Hastings, Owner, Skipper) Triton - (Lient. R. H. Irving, R.N.R.) I Lost. 2 Ex-Belgian canal boat. 151
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| Bonnibell (2/6) | Madame Sans Gêne (4/6) | Semois |
Source: The National Archives, Kew, MT 40 36. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
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| EMILE DESCHAMPS | SEMOIS (Belgian Launch) |
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| /SAM H | Dumb | J.Harker,Ltd. | 25.4.40 Dover | 3.5.40 | Merman |
| Knottingley | Believed returned to Gravesend | ||||
| SEAMEW C | Motor | J.W.Cook & Co. | [ ] 18.4.40 Calais | 7.5.40 | Bureaucrat |
| London. | Not known to have returned | ||||
| SEAGULL C | [X] Dumb | [ ] do. | [ ] [ ] 18.4.40 Dover Not known to have returned | 9.5.40 | Merman |
Operation Dynamo Map — Movement Logs
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