A ship involved in one of the most famous and historically important events of the second world war is currently in dry dock at Newark Marina after a nine year restoration. As the country prepares to remember the events of D-Day on its 80th Anniversary, we cast our minds back a few more years to the evacuation of Dunkirk and the role that one little ship played. In May 1940, British and allied forces in mainland Europe had been pushed back to the sea and surrounded by a devastating Nazi offensive. Holed up in the French coastal town of Dunkirk, some 400,000 men were trapped and facing either a…
