This is the moment a migrant dinghy forced a flotilla of 'Little Ships' commemorating the legendary Dunkirk evacuation to make way - flanked by a French navy boat. Commemorations of the 85th ...

Crews on board the little ships that travelled to Dunkirk this week have had to abandon their ceremonial return to the UK due to weather conditions. Nearly 70 boats - all original civilian ships that ...

A fleet of 66 'little ships' is set to sail from Ramsgate to the French port to commemorate the 85th anniversary of Operation Dynamo. From 26 May to 4 June 1940, about 1,000 vessels sailed through ...

NINETEEN Dunkirk Little Ships have arrived at Royal Victoria Dock in east London, part of a fleet of around 55 boats crossing the Channel this week to help mark the historic episode in the Second ...

They stood with tears in their eyes as they remembered the horror and heroism of one of the Second World War's most incredible escapes. Veterans who owed their lives to the hundreds of courageous ...

LONDON — Dozens of World War II-era ships crossed the English Channel today to mark the 70th anniversary of the Dunkirk evacuation — an event that holds a special place of pride in the British memory.

A 98-YEAR-OLD British veteran is among a handful of survivors from the Dunkirk evacuation to have travelled to France to mark the 75th anniversary of the daring rescue. Fifty-one boats made the ...

A boat that was used to evacuate stranded soldiers from the beaches of Dunkirk in World War II has failed to sell on the auction website eBay. The 30ft (9m) vessel, Anne, was one of the "little ships" ...

To mark the 70th anniversary of the Dunkirk evacuation, Dan Snow tells the story of the 'little ships' which made the perilous cross-channel voyage, as 50 of them return to France.

In 1940 the little ships of Dunkirk sailed from Ramsgate to Dunkirk, to rescue more than 338,000 British and French soldiers who were trapped on the beaches there during the Second World War. Joe ...