Lowestoft Drifters used by Admiralty from Dover for Flare burning as part of the evacuation of BEF and French forces from Dunkirk May 27th to June 4th 1940.
Name- Yorkshire Lass
Card L0472, Helping Hand
Jenkins, Sailing Fisherman in Old Photographs
Name- Helping Hand...Photographed-1920's...Class- Drifter...Built-46tns, built in Rye in 1921. "One of the few sailing trawlers launched after the First World War. Fixed with an auxiliary engine."
Boston Deep Sea Fisheries by Stopper & Maltby
Name - Accord...Class- Trawler...Built- Aberdeen 1918...Working- 1946/7; War Service 1939-46...Disposal- Scrapped 1956.
Boston Deep Sea Fisheries by Stopper & Maltby
Name - Lord Howe...Class- Trawler...Built- 1917, John Chambers, Ltd, YH571 "Choice Kass"...Worked- Lowestoft Herring Drifters Ltd, 1923; War Service 1940-46...Disposal- Scrapped 1947
Lowestoft Drifters used by Admiralty from Dover for Flare burning as part of the evacuation of BEF and French forces from Dunkirk May 27th to June 4th 1940.
Name- Lord Howe
Lowestoft Fishing Vessels converted to HM mine-sweeping craft as part of the evacuation of BEF and French forces from Dunkirk May 27th to June 4th 1940.
Name- Olivae
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