Built in Margate in 1937 by Brockman & Titcombe as an open fishing boat for all year-round fishing off Birchington-on-Sea in Kent. One of hundreds of similar small rowing boats used in the Dunkirk evacuation for ferrying troops from the shoreline to larger vessels lying in deeper water. Tamzine was towed back to Margate by a Belgian fishing vessel and although saturated in blood was otherwise intact. She was immediately identified and re-claimed by local fishermen due to her distinctive straight stem.
Tamzine, at 15 feet long, is the smallest surviving boat from the evacuation. She is now part of the collection at the Imperial War Museum London.
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