History
Gone are the handwritten entries with signature and official stamp on broadsheet-sized manilla folded into the cloth-bound ‘blue book’. Since the 1990s the Certificate of British Registry is simply a laminated piece of A4 card, printed in plain type and renewable every five years.
Read more “Recent owners”
History
In 2015 a set of stamps commemorating the Dunkirk Little Ships evacuation of Dunkirk in 1940 was released by the Republic of Palau, comprising about 100 islands and islets at the western end of the Caroline Islands chain in the western Pacific Ocean.
Read more “Commemorated on stamps: 2015”
History
‘Cachalot’ is a member of the Association of Dunkirk Little Ships (ADLS) and listed amongst the vessels requisitioned to assist in the evacuation of Dunkirk, 1940, known as ‘Operation Dynamo’.
Read more “Return to Dunkirk, 1990”
History
Apart from entries in the Certificate of British Registry and Lloyds Register of Yachts, we know virtually nothing about ‘Cachalot’ from when she was left in the Mediterranean by the Brigadier in 1956 and 1976 when she came into the hands of Ian and Jenny Kiloh.
Read more “Spotted by the OGA: 1977”
History
In 1940, ‘Cachalot’ took part in Operation Dynamo when she was part-owned by Herbert Charles Norton. By 1951 she had changed hands several more times.
Read more “1940 – 1951: owners & ADLS”