Z 26

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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: Belgian Trawler

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

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TNA CAB 103 191

TNA

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Source: The National Archives, Kew, CAB 103 191. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.

Details

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Operation Dynamo Map — Movement Logs

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