On 21st June, 1970—the 30th anniversary of the evacuation of Dunkirk, in May/June, 1940—a fleet of little ships of Dunkirk fame gathered in a huge circle off the coast of Thanet. Here a French sailor is shown casting a wreath from the town of Dunkirk into the sea from the Ramsgate, Kent, life-boat. In the background is the Margate life-boat from another station with Dunkirk associations..