Association of Dunkirk Little Ships

The 2012 Commemorative Cruise will be held in London, in King George V Dock to coincide with the Thames Diamond Jubilee Pageant. The Pageant to be held at high water on the afternoon of Sunday 3 June 2012 and the event will see up to a thousand boats muster on the River Thames in preparation for Her Majesty The Queen to lead the Thames Diamond Jubilee Pageant. The Pageant celebrates Her Majesty's sixty years of service by magnificently bringing the Thames to life.
Little Ships will assemble in Barnes reach prior to the event.

The Association is pleased to announce that Tahilla will be present at the Southampton Boat Show from 15th to 18th September. Her skipper, Mr Jerry Lewis will be happy to talk about any aspect of the Associations' or the Restoration Trusts' activities.

Skylark was built by John I Thornycroft at Hampton-on-Thames in 1922 for D. Melville Wills of Bristol and the Kyle of Lochalsh, to cruise between his two estates.

After he sold her in 1926, Bristol remained her home port until the war and 1939 found her on the Thames to be laid up.