Dunkirk Little Ships Lost in Catastrophic fire at Otter Marine

One of the Little Ships used in the Dunkirk evacuations during the Second World War has been lost in a huge fire on an island in the River Thames.

The Lady Gay was built for Lord Alfred Dunhill, the tobacco company owner, in 1934 and took part in the historic 1940 evacuation.

Crews were called to Platt’s Eyot in Hampton, Richmond upon Thames, at around 5.15pm on Monday after reports of two industrial units on fire.

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