Tamzine
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Tamzine on display at IWM London, August 2012
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History | |
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United Kingdom | |
Name | Tamzine |
Builder | Brockman & Titcombe, Margate |
Launched | 1937 |
Homeport | Birchington-on-Sea |
Honours and awards | Dunkirk 1940 |
Status | Preserved by Imperial War Museum |
Notes | Smallest known 'little ship' of Dunkirk |
General characteristics | |
Type | Open fishing boat |
Length | 14ft 7.5ins |
Beam | 5ft 1.5ins |
Draught | 1ft 6ins |
Propulsion | Outboard motor/sail |
Tamzine is a historic fishing boat. Built by Brockman & Titcombe, of Margate in Kent, in south-east England, Tamzine is notable for having participated as a ''little ship' during the 1940 evacuation of the British Expeditionary Force from Dunkirk in northern France.
At 14.7 feet (4.5 m) in length Tamzine was the smallest vessel to take part in the evacuation. She is clinker-built of Canadian spruce and was constructed in 1937. In 1965 Tamzine participated in a twenty-fifth anniversary commemoration of the evacuation, repeating her Channel crossing. Her presence was recorded by the British newsreel Pathé News.[1]
Tamzine was later acquired and preserved by the Imperial War Museum.[2][3]
References
- ^ British Pathe (1965). "Dunkirk 25 Years After". britishpathe.com. Retrieved 18 March 2012.
- ^ Imperial War Museum (2012). "Ship, Fishing Boat 'Tamzine', British". Imperial War Museum Collections Search. Retrieved 18 March 2012.
- ^ Association of Dunkirk Little Ships (2009–2010). "Tamzine". adls.org.uk. Archived from the original on 24 July 2017. Retrieved 18 March 2012.
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