At sea, when its rust -colored sails are deployed and its black shell breaks the waves, Greta A great look. Originally designed to carve wheat on the Thames, the flat barge, which we would rather think of the wing and swell, forces the admiration of sailors just as dazzled by its prestigious past.
Perhaps difficult to imagine, but Greta is a heroine of British naval history. This Old Lady (“Old lady”), Who has just breathed his 133 candles, participated, in May 1940, in the egoing of the thousands of English and French soldiers surrounded in Dunkirk (North) by the German army. And today, ninety-five years later, here she is back in the port city in order to commemorate these dark hours of the Second World War.
Greta did not come alone. In the early hours of Wednesday, May 21, the barge left the English port of Ramsgate, near Douvres, and set sail on Dunkirk with sixty other boats, all members of The Association of Dunkirk Little Ships (ADLS)of which she is the dean. Created sixty years ago, this brotherhood brings together civil buildings which took part, from May 26 to June 4, 1940, in the largest military evacuation of all time. Code name: Operation “Dynamo”.
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Source: Lemonde