Royal Navy ships formed a guard of honour for the little ships as they arrived at Ramsgate on Britain's south coast from Dunkirk, 46 miles away on the northern coast of France
Eighty-five years on from the historic rescue of hundreds of thousands of Allied troops from France, a flotilla of little ships have recreated the biggest evacuation in military history.
Operation Dynamo, from 26 May to 4 June 1940, saw more than 338,000 British, French and Belgian troops, trapped by the invading German forces around Dunkirk on the northern French coast, brought safely to Britain by roughly 1,000 vessels in a desperate and near-miraculous rescue over more than a week of sailings.
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