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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: Motor Yacht
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
14 pagesImaged document collections containing pages whose OCR text or table data has been tagged with the name West Wind. Open a collection to view the page images and transcriptions.
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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| 7732 | West Wind Wood | Cutter Perry,31 | 24.50 29:38 47 | 590 140 93 69.9 6:3 9.9 520 3454 | Camper& Nicholsons,Ld. C.E.Nicholson | Gosport 1906 | Robt. E. Halahan | Buenos Aires | |||
| 7734 163105 | West Wind Wood Pet.Mot. | TwnSc Kch | 7.49 1481 18 | 450 97 50 45.0 60 3:0 44.5 | TheShipyard Co.Ld. Hyland,Ld. | Bangor, co.Down 1930 | 2 Petrol Motors each6Cy.3:38"-4:5" Hyland, Wakefield | Thomas Costley | Hull |
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| 7735 | West Wind Wood | BmSlp | [ ] - | 24'0 | 70 | [ ] - | E.L.Woods | Horning | Richard A. Edmunds | Waldring- |
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| West Wind 47 | a. Mascotte | 44 | a. Zonnetij IV | 42 | a. Hope | 39 | a. Faith | 37 | m. Yma 36 |
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| a. Ludana | 18 | m. West Wind | 18 | m. Jastlone | 17 | m. Ravensbourne | 17 | a. Bonbonnière | 16 | m. Intruder | 16 |
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| Gilliatt | a. Aralus 30 | m. Ewen | 7 | a. Norada | 106 | West Wind | 47 | a. Mignonette 4 65 |
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| a. Wild Goose 17 | Mavourneen - | m. Sheemick 7 | m. West Wind 18 |
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| Astra | 164 | m. Falcon | 13 | a. Norlanda 174 | West Wind 47 | a. Seestern - |
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| Corfield, C. Russell, Royal Cornwall Yacht Club, Falmouth, Cornwall. | Isle of Man. m. Gaviota 8 Corlett, W. E., | Cosens & Co., Ltd., Custom House Quay, Weymouth, Dorset. m. Sheiling 39 | m. West Wind 18 Cosulich, Gr. Uf. Cap. A. N., | Couldrey, Capt. George, Richmond Avenue, Northcote, Auckland, N.Z. m. Kotaretare 8 |
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| Dyson, H., Addison Road, Preston, Lancs. m. Foam II 12 | Eaton, Dr. D. A., Wheatlands, South Benfleet, Essex. Ben.-L.S. a. Louise 3 | m. Carla III 40 Eckles, A. G., Kenwyn, 5, Shaftesbury Road, Bridlington, Yorks.-Scr.-Yrk. | Edge, Knowles, Woodfield, Woodville Terrace, Lytham, Lancs.-Bpl.-Lyt.M.-Mer.-Yrk a. Climena 31 | Edmunds, Richard A., Ledburn Manor House, Leighton Buzzard, Beds.-C.A.-Flx.-Isl. West Wind 4 |
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| R.Y.S.-H.B.-Prt.-Srn. m. Atlantis 216 | a. Albatross VI 30 | m. Seabird 7 | West Wind 47 |
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| 8231 154051 | West Wind Wood Pet.Mot. | AuxYwl | 850 8.75 7 | 25.5 92 49 305 5.5 27.0 668 | Morita Josenjo Day,Fleming& | Yokohama 1912 Mowan | Petrol Motor 2Cy.3"-4}" Bergius | G. G. Wood | HongKong |
Source: The National Archives, Kew, RED LIST INDEX 1939 40. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
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| Musette II - | West Wind White |
Source: The National Archives, Kew, ADM 199 788 A. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
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Dynam. 118. Buyo/ 35 1182 36 H.M.S. "Dolphin" Gosport, Hants. 6th June 1940. Sir, I have the honour to report the following proceedings of H.M.S. "Dwarf" inconnection with evacuation of the B.E.F.from Dunkirk. 2) H.M.S. "Dwarf" sailed from Portsmouthuat 2100 on Wednesday 29th May. 1940. for Ramsgate. During the passage there was nothing of interest to note, and' Dwarf" arrived at 1700 on Thursday 30th May. 3) After provisioning, coaling and embarking two Lewis guns, "Dwarf" sailed for Dunkirk at 2000 using route "X" 4) At about 0030 on Friday "Dwarf was some 6 miles North West of Dunkirk, so waited till daylight before attempting to enter the buoyed channel to Dunkirk. During the passage up the channel a formation of German reconnaissaice aeroplanes appeared overhead. Every ship in the vicinity, as well as the soldiers an the beach, 2 opened fire. "Dwarf": 'starboard Lewis gunner registered several tracer bullets in one of the machines which turned away to the South. 5) On reaching Dunkirk "Dwarf" was ordered by a destroyer to proceed to La Panne However, after steaming for about & mile the motor barge "Viking "hailed for assistance. She had 150 soldiers on board, and in attempting could to get off the heach, burnt out her clutches. She now go in the astern direction. 6) only time there was a fresh North West wind and At the tide, as well as several wrecks and ships in at anchor, rising which made operations in order to get her tow very difficult.
Operation Dynamo Map — Movement Logs
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