It has been more than 80 years since the British destroyer HMS Keith sank during an operation described by Winston Churchill as a ‘miracle of deliverance’.
The 330ft-long vessel was among some 1,000 military, merchant, fishing and civilian ‘little ships’ that helped rescue 338,226 Allied troops from the beaches of Dunkirk in 1940.
It had just returned to the French coast having evacuated 992 soldiers to Dover when it was bombed by a German aircraft and sank to the bottom