The parallels between the experiences of Mark Rylance's small boat and that of "Sundowner" (taken to Dunkirk by Commander C.H. Lightoller, DSC, RNR (Retired)) can be read on pages 201-3 of "Dunkirk" by A.D. Divine (published in 1945). Lightoller (previously second officer and most senior surviving crew member of R.M.S. Titanic) took as crew his son and a sea scout. He picked up survivors from a returning motor cruiser and took them back to Dunkirk, "giving them the additional pleasure of again facing the hell they had only just left". His youngest son Brian (lost flying his Blenheim in the first air raid on Wilhelmshaven) had previously given him advice on evasive tactics and he used them to evade a German fighter that made three unsuccessful attempts to sink the boat, then gave up and flew away. The stoker P.O. assisting disembarkation of one hundred thirty men did ask where he had put them. One surprise is that several equally dramatic incidents in this account were not used in this movie, so perhaps they were working from a different version of Lightoller's story.

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