A fleet of 66 vessels set sail from Ramsgate, Kent, to commemorate Operation Dynamo, which saw the 'Little Ships' rescue 300,000 Allied soldiers over 10 days in 1940.

A fleet of 66 vessels set sail from Ramsgate, Kent, to commemorate Operation Dynamo, which saw the 'Little Ships' rescue 300,000 Allied soldiers over 10 days in 1940.

A fleet commemorating the 85th anniversary of the heroic effort to save Allied soldiers from incoming German troops had to make way for an unlikely guest.

I was planning on half-joking that I didn't know whether to file this story under You Couldn't Make It Up or Makes You Proud To Be British. But, frankly, I'm torn between laughing…