Browse the vessels, people, honours and documentary indexes connected with the Dunkirk evacuation. Records are research aids and may contain omissions or transcription errors; verify important details against the linked source images and holding archives.
Compare vessel names across the Orde Report, Red List, Small Craft Service List and Lloyd’s Yacht Register.
Browse officers, ratings, civilian crews and other named individuals recorded in the archive.
Explore gallantry awards, distinguished-service recognition and Mentions in Despatches.
Search vessel names, people, source transcriptions and catalogue information across the archive.
An indexed documentary collection begins with a source document and turns its contents into a structured research aid. We identify and transcribe selected facts, organise them into consistent fields and categories, and aggregate or summarise related references so that people, vessels, places, dates and subjects can be searched and compared. This creates a practical taxonomy of the source; it is not a reproduction of the complete document and should always be checked against the original.
Selected vessel, service, personnel, event and source references extracted from Orde’s alphabetical report, classified into searchable fields and summarised as linked research records.
Browse Orde-indexed ships →OCR and page images from Admiralty wartime vessel lists, indexed by volume and page so names and references can be located and compared with other collections.
Browse Red List ships →Vessels and associated personnel extracted from the source list and organised into searchable categories such as name, vessel type, service and source page.
Browse Small Craft records →Selected yacht-register entries indexed into structured ownership, construction and identification fields, then linked to matching wartime vessel records.
Browse Lloyd’s-indexed ships →These collections contain imaged source documents with searchable OCR transcriptions. Select a collection to browse its imaged documents and search the text detected on every page.
Operation Dynamo reports and recommendations for awards, volume 2 (1940–1942), documenting service during the Dunkirk evacuation and the cases submitted for official recognition.
TNA · 344 imaged documents
Browse this collection →Source: The National Archives, Kew, ADM 116/4649. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
Admiralty records of Operation Dynamo and the evacuation of troops from Dunkirk, part A, dating from 1940.
TNA · 120 imaged documents
Browse this collection →Source: The National Archives, Kew, ADM 199/788 A. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
Volume I of Lt Col G. P. Orde’s alphabetical research report on vessels associated with Operation Dynamo. This site provides independently written summaries and factual index metadata, not source images or transcriptions.
Source images and text are withheld while copyright ownership and licensing remain unresolved. Page notes are independent research summaries, not transcriptions; factual indexes and tags are separately compiled metadata.
NMM · 436 indexed source pages with research summaries
Browse this collection →Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
Volume II of Lt Col G. P. Orde’s alphabetical research report on vessels associated with Operation Dynamo. This site provides independently written summaries and factual index metadata, not source images or transcriptions.
Source images and text are withheld while copyright ownership and licensing remain unresolved. Page notes are independent research summaries, not transcriptions; factual indexes and tags are separately compiled metadata.
NMM · 456 indexed source pages with research summaries
Browse this collection →Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
Volume III of Lt Col G. P. Orde’s alphabetical research report on vessels associated with Operation Dynamo. This site provides independently written summaries and factual index metadata, not source images or transcriptions.
Source images and text are withheld while copyright ownership and licensing remain unresolved. Page notes are independent research summaries, not transcriptions; factual indexes and tags are separately compiled metadata.
NMM · 380 indexed source pages with research summaries
Browse this collection →Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
Admiralty records of Operation Dynamo and the evacuation of troops from Dunkirk, part B, dating from 1940.
TNA · 20 imaged documents
Browse this collection →Source: The National Archives, Kew, ADM 199/788 B. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
A project index to the Admiralty Red List for 1939–1940, used to locate vessels, commands and page references in the wartime lists and compare them with related records.
TNA · 321 imaged documents
Browse this collection →Source: The National Archives, Kew, RED LIST INDEX 1939 40. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
Admiralty records concerning Operation Dynamo and the evacuation of troops from Dunkirk, covering 1940–1941.
TNA · 1,051 imaged documents
Browse this collection →Source: The National Archives, Kew, ADM 199/792. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
Admiralty records concerning Operation Dynamo and the evacuation of troops from Dunkirk, dating from 1940.
TNA · 1,119 imaged documents
Browse this collection →Source: The National Archives, Kew, ADM 199/790. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
Naval Staff History No. 41, the official historical study of the evacuation from Dunkirk during Operation Dynamo, 26 May–4 June 1940, dated 1949.
TNA · 243 imaged documents
Browse this collection →Source: The National Archives, Kew, ADM 234/360. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
Admiralty reports on naval operations off the Dutch, Belgian and French coasts during 1940.
TNA · 731 imaged documents
Browse this collection →Source: The National Archives, Kew, ADM 199/795. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
Little Ships Club correspondence and personal accounts relating to the Dunkirk evacuation, covering 1940–1941.
TNA · 71 imaged documents
Browse this collection →Source: The National Archives, Kew, ADM 334/83. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
A working collection of Operation Dynamo source material whose definitive National Archives catalogue reference is still being identified.
TNA · 724 imaged documents
Browse this collection →Source: The National Archives, Kew, Unclassified 1. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
A working collection of Admiralty Operation Dynamo material whose full ADM 199 catalogue reference is still being identified.
TNA · 425 imaged documents
Browse this collection →Source: The National Archives, Kew, ADM 199/xxx. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
Cabinet Office papers concerning the proposed publication of a book about Operation Dynamo and the 1940 evacuation from Dunkirk, dating from April 1949 to February 1950.
TNA · 134 imaged documents
Browse this collection →Source: The National Archives, Kew, CAB 103/191. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
Ministry of Transport papers on Dynamo war planning, the “E” scheme pool of small craft for special service, and the procedure for settling claims, covering 1944–1945.
TNA · 268 imaged documents
Browse this collection →Source: The National Archives, Kew, MT 40/36. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
Ministry of Transport records containing a Dynamo vessel list and reports from masters and crews engaged in the evacuation, covering 1940–1947.
TNA · 389 imaged documents
Browse this collection →Source: The National Archives, Kew, MT 40/66. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
A second digitised section of MT 40/36: Ministry of Transport papers on the Dynamo small-craft pool, special-service planning and claims procedure.
TNA · 334 imaged documents
Browse this collection →Source: The National Archives, Kew, MT 40/36 Pt 2. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
The complete 1939 Lloyd’s Register of Yachts, presented as page images with machine-extracted table data for research and cross-reference with indexed vessel records.
Internet Archive / Lloyd’s Register Foundation Heritage Centre · 927 imaged documents
Browse this collection →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.
Admiralty Small Craft Service List pages recording the wartime employment and service details of requisitioned and auxiliary craft.
TNA · 167 imaged documents
Browse this collection →Source: The National Archives, Kew, ADM 199/2429. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.