Facebook post #017 (26 May 2020)
Today is the 80th anniversary of the Little Ships first sailing to Dunkirk. This is my family’s surviving contribution, the Glenway, built and operated, appropriately, by my Little cousins. She was towed across the channel from Ramsgate by the tug ‘Crested Cock’ with a consignment of bread, munitions and medical supplies for the troops. She was spotted, by an anti-submarine vessel, on the beach, with 190 battle-weary troops on board, unable to re float and with her engine out of commission. The Captain armed her to resist enemy air attacks, refloated her, and sailed home, laden with soldiers of the 27th Field Regiment, Royal Artillery. Sadly, twenty of them died of their wounds during the sixteen-hour crossing. When the Glenway reached Dover, she was picked up by a passing tug and towed into port.
