About 850 private boats, known as Little Ships, sailed from Ramsgate, Kent, to Dunkirk in May and June 1940 as part of Operation Dynamo during World War Two. More than 338,000 British and French ...

approximately 340,000 men were picked up by some 900 ships, many of them small, privately-owned vessels. Demoralised, starving and exhausted, the men waiting on the beaches of Dunkirk endured days ...

A ship that helped rescue thousands of men from Dunkirk in the Second World War is to return to base following its latest restoration. The five-month revamp of the Medway Queen took place at ...