Dover - The skippers of dozens of the Little Ships which rescued Allied troops from the beaches at Dunkirk during the second World War are anxiously hoping that the weather will allow them to sail to the French port today.
Bad weather forced organisers to postpone plans for the flotilla, now moored at Dover, to cross the Channel to Dunkirk to mark the 60th anniversary of the heroic evacuation.
The voyage is to mark the evacuation of more than 300,000 British and Allied troops from the beaches at Dunkirk - where they were trapped by advancing German forces - in May and June 1940.