British and French scientists use sonar to create 3D models of Dunkirk shipwrecks. The WWII warship 'Keith', which was 330ft long, is seen for the first time in 80 years as a result of this project, after it sank while helping rescue Allied troops.
Operation Dynamo led to rescue of 338,226 Allied troops from Dunkirk in 1940. Scientists are trying to identify the undiscovered wrecks among 305 vessels lostIt has been more than 80 years since the British destroyer HMS Keith sank during an operation described by Winston Churchill as a 'miracle of deliverance'.
It is all thanks to a project involving Historic England and Drassm — France's Department of Underwater Archaeological Research. It had just returned to the French coast having evacuated 992 soldiers to Dover when it was bombed by a German aircraft and sank to the bottom of the English Channel. 'It's very moving to see new details emerge from thirty shipwrecks linked to Operation Dynamo for the first time since the events at Dunkirk during the Second World War,' said Duncan Wilson, chief executive of Historic England.
How it works: A multibeam echosounder mounted beneath the hull of the research ship André Malraux helped to create the colourful 3D image Many of the wrecks are actually in pretty good condition, the researchers said, but when compared to past surveys it is clear that HMS Keith's hull has degraded in the last decade.
The data also revealed that previous identifications had confused the French auxiliary minesweepers Denis Papin and Moussaillon, which were sunk by air attacks on June 1, 1940The main tool used by the scientists was a multibeam echosounder which was mounted beneath the hull of the research ship André Malraux Between May 27 and June 4, 1940, 338,226 Allied troops were rescued from the beaches of Dunkirk by military, merchant and fishing vessels and civilian 'little ships'.
Between May 27 and June 4, 1940, 338,226 Allied troops were rescued from the beaches of Dunkirk by military, merchant and fishing vessels and civilian 'little ships'Hospital Carrier St. David by the East Mole at Dunkirk. The vessel took troops back from Dunkirk but was sunk in 1944 off the coast of Lazio, ItalyHe added: 'The enemy was hurled back by the retreating British and French troops. He was so roughly handled that he did not harry their departure seriously.
Evacuation of Dunkirk: How 338,000 Allied troops were saved in 'miracle of deliverance' after the German Blitzkreig saw Nazi forces sweep into France The evacuation from Dunkirk was one of the biggest operations of the Second World War and was one of the major factors in enabling the Allies to continue fighting.
The Second World War began after Germany invaded Poland in 1939, but for a number of months there was little further action on land. They reached the coast towards the end of May 1940, pinning back the Allied forces, including several hundred thousand troops of the British Expeditionary Force. Military leaders quickly realised there was no way they would be able to stay on mainland Europe.
They sailed from Dover, the closest point, to allow them the shortest crossing. On May 29, Operation Dynamo was put into action.
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