Tamzine Explained

-- full code -->	+ Ship Image: Tamzine at iwm london side view.JPG Ship Caption: Tamzine on display at IWM London, August 2012 Ship Country: United Kingdom Ship Name: Tamzine Ship Builder: Brockman & Titcombe, Margate Ship Launched: 1937 Ship Homeport: Birchington-on-Sea Ship Honours: Dunkirk 1940 Ship Status: Preserved by Imperial War Museum Ship Notes: Smallest known 'little ship' of Dunkirk Ship Type: Open fishing boat Ship Length: 14ft 7.5ins Ship Beam: 5ft 1.5ins Ship Draught: 1ft 6ins Ship Propulsion: Outboard motor/sail

Tamzine is a historic fishing boat. Built by Brockman & Titcombe, of Margate in Kent, in south-east England, Tamzine is notable for having participated as a ''little ship' during the 1940 evacuation of the British Expeditionary Force from Dunkirk in northern France.

At 14.7feet in length Tamzine was the smallest vessel to take part in the evacuation. She is clinker-built of Canadian spruce and was constructed in 1937. In 1965 Tamzine participated in a twenty-fifth anniversary commemoration of the evacuation, repeating her Channel crossing. Her presence was recorded by the British newsreel Pathé News.^[1]

Tamzine was later acquired and preserved by the Imperial War Museum.^{[2] [3]}

Notes and References

1. Web site: Dunkirk 25 Years After . . 1965 . britishpathe.com. 18 March 2012.
2. Web site: Ship, Fishing Boat 'Tamzine', British . . 2012 . Imperial War Museum Collections Search . 18 March 2012.
3. Web site: Tamzine . Association of Dunkirk Little Ships . 2009–2010 . adls.org.uk . 18 March 2012 . 24 July 2017 . https://web.archive.org/web/20170724072128/http://www.adls.org.uk/t1/node/582 . dead .