700 private boats sailed from Ramsgate in England to what place in France between 26 May and 4 June 1940 as part of Operation Dynamo?
Little Ships of Dunkirk Little Ships of Dunkirk The Little Ships of Dunkirk were about 850 private boats that sailed from Ramsgate in England to Dunkirk in France between 26 May and 4 June 1940 as part of Operation Dynamo, helping to rescue more than 336,000 British and French soldiers who were trapped on the beaches at Dunkirk during the Second World War. The situation of the troops, who had been cut off from their advance into France by a pincer movement from the German army, was regarded by the British prime minister Winston Churchill as the greatest military defeat for centuries; it appeared
Action of 26 June 1941 26 June, near Ceatalchioi. The Romanian motor launches "V-1" and "V-3", part of the "Tulcea Tactical Group" (along with the other two boats and two Romanian monitors) were involved in a successful Romanian landing operation on 24 June, providing artillery support for the ground troops as they occupied the Soviet observation post of Ceatalchioi. On the night of 25–26 June, three Soviet armored motor gunboats infiltrated in Romanian waters in order to install a barrage of mines. The action commenced at 01:20 am on 26 June, when the commander of "V-3" spotted the three Soviet boats, which were advancing in