Err as for Britain keeping our little ships, they have left several of the really historic ones to rot.
The last of the lightships used to mark the route to the beaches through the minefields, and it's a German expressing concern for her!
http://www.feuerschiffseite.de/SCHIF...V72/lv72gb.htm
And the last surviving LCT ( Landing Craft Tank)
http://www.nationalhistoricships.org...r/713/landfall
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