Tamzine
{{Short description|1937 fishing boat}}
{{About|the historic fishing boat|the female given names Tamsin, Tamzin etc|Thomasina}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=November 2017}}
{{Use British English|date=November 2017}}
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|+ {{Infobox ship image |Ship image=Tamzine at iwm london side view.JPG |Ship caption=Tamzine on display at IWM London, August 2012 }} {{Infobox ship career |Hide header= |Ship country=United Kingdom |Ship flag={{shipboxflag|United Kingdom|civil}} |Ship name=Tamzine |Ship builder= Brockman & Titcombe, Margate |Ship launched=1937 |Ship homeport=Birchington-on-Sea |Ship honours=Dunkirk 1940 |Ship status=Preserved by Imperial War Museum |Ship notes=Smallest known 'little ship' of Dunkirk }} {{Infobox ship characteristics |Hide header= |Header caption= |Ship type=Open fishing boat |Ship length=14ft 7.5ins |Ship beam=5ft 1.5ins |Ship draught=1ft 6ins |Ship propulsion=Outboard motor/sail }} |
Tamzine is a historic fishing boat. Built by Brockman & Titcombe, of Margate in Kent, in south-east England, Tamzine is notable for having participated as a ''little ship' during the 1940 evacuation of the British Expeditionary Force from Dunkirk in northern France.
At {{convert|14.7|ft|m}} in length Tamzine was the smallest vessel to take part in the evacuation. She is clinker-built of Canadian spruce and was constructed in 1937.
In 1965 Tamzine participated in a twenty-fifth anniversary commemoration of the evacuation, repeating her Channel crossing. Her presence was recorded by the British newsreel Pathé News.{{cite web |url=http://www.britishpathe.com/video/dunkirk-25-years-after |title=Dunkirk 25 Years After |author=British Pathe |year=1965 |work= britishpathe.com|publisher= |accessdate=18 March 2012}}
Tamzine was later acquired and preserved by the Imperial War Museum.{{cite web |url=http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/30004026 |title=Ship, Fishing Boat 'Tamzine', British |author=Imperial War Museum |year=2012 |work=Imperial War Museum Collections Search |publisher= |accessdate=18 March 2012}}{{cite web |url=http://www.adls.org.uk/t1/node/582 |title=Tamzine |author=Association of Dunkirk Little Ships |date=2009–2010 |work=adls.org.uk |publisher= |accessdate=18 March 2012 |archive-date=24 July 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170724072128/http://www.adls.org.uk/t1/node/582 |url-status=dead }}
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