It featured in the 2017 blockbuster Dunkirk, starring actors including Kenneth Branagh, Cillian Murphy, Tom Hardy and Harry Styles - and in the movie it could be seen crewed by real local fishermen.

The little ship crews returning to the miracle of Dunkirk John Fairhall/BBC A total of 16 people will set sail from Hythe Quay in Maldon just before 04:00 BST on Monday Peter Walker BBC News, Essex ...

As France fell to the German armies in May 1940, 400,000 Allied troops were trapped on the beaches of Dunkirk. Their annihilation seemed certain—a disaster that could have led to Britain’s ...