MV (Motor Vessel) Tender Watchful was one of around 850 “Little Ships” that answered the country’s call to help rescue thousands of stranded Allied troops from the beaches of Dunkirk in ...

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 ...