2025 marks 85 years since Operation Dynamo, when a fleet of ‘little ships’ evacuated over 300,000 Allied soldiers from the beaches of France. The ADLS (Association… Read More »85th Anniversary Return to Dunkirk, May 2025
As ‘Letitia’ embarks on the 2025 Return to Dunkirk we look back 20 years when she did the Return with Mike and Sue Feather. Leigh-on-Sea… Read More »‘Letitia’ joins the Return to Dunkirk, 2000
After a brief introduction to the ‘Dunkirk Little Ships’ Keith Mosley shares his experiences of the 2015 Return to Dunkirk aboard ‘Papillon’. The event is run… Read More »Return to Dunkirk, 2015
As over 60 ‘Dunkirk Little Ships’ make passage to Ramsgate for the 85th Anniversary Return to Dunkirk, we bring some archive footage of the 1965… Read More »Return to Dunkirk, 1965
In this extract by Daniel Defoe, he reflects on the town of Plymouth, noting its importance as a safe anchorage and tells the tale of Winstanley’s… Read More »Perilous storms in Plymouth Sound, 1703
This Christmas post is a poem by Robert Louis Stevenson who was born in Edinburgh, 1850, son of a lighthouse engineer. He loved to travel,… Read More »Christmas at Sea
Daniel Defoe describes a terrible disaster when 200 sailing colliers were lost off the east coast of England in 1692. About the year 1692, (I… Read More »200 colliers lost at sea, 1692
Enkhuizen has been a major harbour since the middle ages, and its links with herring fishing are still recognised today with three herring on the… Read More »Herring town: Enkhuisen
As OGA members leave the UK to cross the North Sea for NL20, the 20th Anniversary of the Dutch OGA, look back at this silent,… Read More »Holiday week in Holland 1962