Boulogne had fallen and Calais was about to, leaving Dunkirk, Ostend and Zeebrugge as the only viable ports which could be used for evacuation.
She left Dunkirk on 4 September 1798.
The Express and the destroyer Shikari were the last ships to leave Dunkirk with troops before the evacuation ended on June 4th.
H.N.A. Richardson, was the last ship to leave Dunkirk.
She had left Dunkirk the day before and was sailing to Boulogne.
At 4 pm on Tuesday, 4 September 1798, the Anacreon left Dunkirk for Ireland.
She was an entirely new vessel that had left Dunkirk for the West Indies.
At the end of the campaign, he took command of the evacuation of the beach at La Panne, and was on the last destroyer to leave Dunkirk.
Just as the British started thinking about returning to the Continent even as they were leaving Dunkirk, so did Hitler begin thinking then of how to repulse an invasion.
She was armed with 16 guns, all 3 or 4-pounders, and had left Dunkirk on 31 December.