Images of The Cowes Flotilla
All steel hulled up and including Q 015
https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/1060022194
Film of Chasseurs 15 and 11 manoeuvring on exercise 4min 40sec on Imperial War Museum
https://issuu.com/wormsetcie/docs/50_years_of_shipbuilding_on_the_banks_of_the_seine
Chasseurs under construction at Le Trait pages 183-4 & 192-3 (read on for the evacuation)
also see page 395 build/launch dates for Ch 13,14,15.
https://forummarine.forumactif.com/t10415p50-la-flotte-des-forces-navales-francaises-libres
Chasseur 5 Carentan
On the Dieppe Raid August 1942 Collection L'Hours
Chasseur 8 Rennes
The only photo of Ch 8 afloat found with thanks to Margaret Prior
Chasseur 8 in build Dunkirk 1939
Chasseur 10 Bayonne off Gosport in Portsmouth Harbour Collection L'Hours
Chasseur 10 dry docking in Marvins Yard Collection L'Hours
Chasseur 11 Boulogne Collection Sauvage
Chasseur 11 Boulogne under way close up
Chasseur 12 Benodet
Short clip of Ch 12 in a training film
https://imagesdefense.gouv.fr/fr/l-ecole-navale-a-lanveoc-poulmic.html
Chasseur 12 Benodet Collection L'Hours
Chasseur 13 Calais Collection Ollivier
Chasseur 13 at sea Collection Le Goff
The image above (shown below) colourized by AI with thanks to Robert Le Goff
Chasseur 14 Dielette under the Royal Navy white ensign
Chasseur 15 Paimpol
Chasseur 15 flying Free French Colours
Chasseur 41 Audierne
Wooden hulls to 43
Link to Q041 in port at Audierne Lettre-dinformations-n°10-.pdf
Chasseur 41 in open water Collection Le Goff
Chasseur 41 in port Collection Le Goff
Chasseur 42 Larmor off Calshot Light vessel in the Solent
Chasseur 43 Lavandou
Base Ship La Dilligente
Phantome II ( Belem)
See link: It is rumoured that General De Gaulle stayed on this ship during his visit to Cowes,
as the Diligente had no heating or hot water (from Audio IWM Marcel Ollivier)
then called Phantome II she was the private yacht of Ernest Guinness and had previously belonged to the Duke of Westminster, she is now called Belem
https://www.gralon.net/articles/sports-et-loisirs/bateau-et-voile/article-le-belem---5-faits-insolites-sur-le-celebre-voilier-13611.htm
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