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This is the Boat Store, from where un-issued pulling boats - launches, cutters, gigs, and whalers,["anything that will float"] were hastily withdrawn from May 27th to May 31st, 1940, dropped into the Basin to "take-up", and then stocked with oars and other gear, to be towed to Dunkirk, via Ramsgate, behind Steam Tugs - mostly from the Sun Fleet. At Dunkirk, these boats were used to ferry soldiers from the sands to larger ships forced to anchor almost a mile offshore due to the shallow water - rather like the Southend foreshore across the Estuary to the North of Sheerness. '
