Amphibious cars, queen’s royal rowbarge mark Dunkirk anniversary

HENLEY-ON-THAMES, England – Queen Elizabeth II’s stately royal barge “Gloriana” found itself sharing the River Thames with some quirky upstarts at the weekend – amphibious motor cars. As the rowbarge – an ornate, gold-leaf and crest-bedecked vessel powered by 18 rowers – oared its way down river like something from a Canaletto painting, a flotilla of small floating automobiles putted by in the other direction.