One Man's Dunkirk

There was nothing particularly special about the role played at Dunkirk by Second Class Stoker Duncan Nicol. He was one man among hundreds making up the crews that manned the Little Boats. It was, in fact, the first time he had seen active warfare. A former gas engineer, he joined the Navy at its lowest engineering rank at the outbreak of war and arrived in Ramsgate, fresh from a course on the Internal Combustion Engine, to join the pleasure yacht Elizabeth Green. He had at the time only a suspicion that their destination would be Dunkirk. In this film DUNCAN NICOL tells of the two voyages to Dunkirk made by the Elizabeth Green, now a pleasure yacht again, and describes the scenes he saw during Whitsun 1940.