7 Sights in Dunkirk, France (with Map and Images)

The Dunkirk Maritime and Port Museum is a maritime museum and a society museum, located in a place built in 1868 that once housed a tobacco warehouse, the Bourdon store. It was born in 1992 from the initiative of former dockers who, as early as the 1970s, had undertaken to gather and preserve testimonies of their profession and their environment. Consisting mainly of traditional dockers' tools, it was therefore initially a professional museum that was enriched and considerably developed later. The initial collections were thus completed by the museum's acquisitions and deposits, mainly from the Dunkirk Chamber of Commerce (iconography) and the city's Museum of Fine Arts (models).

Wikipedia: Musée portuaire de Dunkerque (FR)

The Sandettié, the sixth of the name, named by association to the Banc de Sandettié, is the last French lightship to have been put into service. Built in 1947 at the Forges et chantiers de la Méditerranée, in Graville le Havre, under the name BF 6, it was decommissioned in June 1989 when it was bought by the city of Dunkirk. The last person to have brought it into port was Daniel Manier. It is now part of the afloat collection of the Dunkirk Port Museum alongside the three-masted Duchesse Anne.

Wikipedia: Sandettié (bateau-feu) (FR)

The Saint-Pol light is a lighthouse located at the end of the west jetty of the port of Dunkirk, listed as a historical monument. Owned by the State, it is planned to sell it to local authorities. Paradoxically, it owes its name to Saint-Pol-sur-Mer, although it is located in Dunkirk.

Wikipedia: Feu de Saint-Pol (FR)

The belfry of Dunkirk is a 15th-century French monument classified as a historical monument since 1840. The belfry has also been listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site as one of the belfries of Belgium and France since 2005. It was built around 1440 in place of an old watchtower.

Wikipedia: Beffroi de Dunkerque (FR)

Duchesse Anne is the last remaining full-rigged ship under the French flag. She was built in 1901 with a steel hull by the yard of Joh. C. Tecklenborg of Bremerhaven-Geestemünde (Germany) according to plans drawn by Georg W. Claussen. The mainmast is 48 m tall and 25 sails were rigged. She was utilised as a training ship for young aspiring sailors in the German merchant marine.

Wikipedia: Duchesse Anne (EN)

The Dunkirk Memorial is a Commonwealth War Graves Commission memorial to the missing that commemorates 4,505 missing dead of the British Expeditionary Force (BEF), most of whom fell prior to and during the Battle of Dunkirk in 1939 and 1940, in the fall of France during the Second World War.

Wikipedia: Dunkirk Memorial (EN)

PS Princess Elizabeth is a passenger-carrying paddle steamer which was built by Day, Summers and Company in 1927 for Southampton, Isle of Wight and South of England Royal Mail Steam Packet Company Limited, that is noted for being one of the Little Ships of Dunkirk, and is now a static floating restaurant in Dunkirk.

Wikipedia: PS Princess Elizabeth (EN), Website