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E.M.E.D. ON705

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Also known as: Capitan Cristhiansen

ADLS ID 492 Ship Name E.M.E.D. ON705
Other Names Capitan Cristhiansen Operations Used Dynamo
Ship Type R.N.L.I. Lifeboat Length 48ft 6ins
Beam 13ft Draft n/k
Engine n/k Builder J S White, Cowes, IoW
Build Year 1928 Construction n/k
Archive Association of Dunkirk Little Ships Language en
Source ADLS Website https://www.adls.org.uk/little_ship/emed-on705
ADLS Member No
Present in Red List Present in Orde Report Present in Small Craft Service List
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*This infomation may be subject to errors or omissions in research and is provided by the 3rd party research website https://www.operationdynamo.navy, presence in the Orde Report includes a narrative, Orde may have references to the ship not participating but other evidence may contradict this.

This ship may also have been refered to as Capitan Cristhiansen.

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Anniversary Returns Attended

This little ship attended the following anniversay returns to Dunkirk

1940 2026

Ship History

E.M.E.D. the 1928 Walton & Frinton lifeboat built by J. Samuel White, was sold out of service to Chile in 1956. She was a large vessel of her type: 48ft. 6ins. long with a 13ft. beam. She went to Dunkirk twice in 1940 and survived three enemy air attacks off Gravelines which destroyed boats with which she was in tow. She came back with a rope around her propeller. A shell killed the officer in charge. From a new contributor to the website (May 2018): "I am a Volunteer belonging to the Volunteer Corps of the Lifeboats of Valparaiso Chile. I was Third Pilot of the BS Capitan Cristhiansen previous EMED Boat. I am currently part of a project to recover this historic vessel, the former EMED. I have not found pictures of her." Image appended from our files, see also here:- https://www.flickr.com/photos/panr/3856601199 (and elsewhere) We await further details of this....could she hold the record for the most far flung 'Dunkirker'? (London to Valparaiso is 7260 miles apparently) See also her sister ship 'Greater London - Ades 1'.

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