Evacuation began on the 29th of May by the Royal Navy and civilian fishing and lifeboats pressed into service known as ‘little ships’.

Listen to eight survivors of the Dunkirk evacuation recount their stories ... approximately 340,000 men were picked up by some 900 ships, many of them small, privately-owned vessels.

The wreckage of one the "little ships" that took part in the evacuation of troops from Dunkirk during World War Two has been removed from a river. The Compass Rose was one of about 850 boats that ...

THIS IS a tale of two ships, both built on the River Clyde. PS Waverley, the last seagoing paddlesteamer in the world, and SS ...

play Andrew Marr traces the journey of the little ships Andrew Marr traces the ... the nation after the defeat in France and the Dunkirk evacuation. play The resilience of Churchill and the ...

Veterans of World War II describe their experiences of the retreat to Dunkirk in 1940 and the evacuation On 10 May the German Army invaded Holland and Belgium The Blitzkrieg had begun an entirely ...

and the evacuation of Namsos - caring for many badly burned and wounded men. After Norway, his ship received orders to proceed to a 'place called Dunkirk'. Everybody thought this was in Scotland ...