Babies and children were among dozens of people dragged from the English Channel just days after tragedy struck on a similar journey when 27 desperate migrants perished.
Responders for the RNLI rushed to save around 100 migrants who were crammed on four dinghies after receiving calls about their plight..
The group survived and were seen disembarking off lifeboat vessels at Dover Port in the early hours of this morning.
The single lifeboat that rushed to their rescue soon became full and had to be joined by a Border Vessel to keep pulling people from the busy shipping route, MailOnline reports.
It is thought they boarded just a handful of flimsy dinghies under the cover of darkness in the early hours of Saturday at Gravelines, south of Dunkirk in Northern France.
One of the boats had 50 or more migrants on board despite measuring just six or seven-metres long.
News of the rescue comes days after 27 people tragically died when their dinghy capsized during the cross-Channel journey from France to the UK.
Among the tragic victims were a pregnant woman, seven other females, and three children in what was called the deadliest incident of its kind ever.
Shortly after the tragedy on November 24, reports suggested the inflatable threw its passengers into the Channel's freezing waters after it collided with a container ship.
French Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin said the vessel was 'very frail' and "like a pool you blow up in your garden" before it got into trouble in the waters.
One fisherman called the rescue services after seeing an empty dinghy and people floating motionless nearby.
Prime Minister Boris Johnson said he was ''shocked, appalled and deeply saddened'' after the tragedy.
He said: "Now is the time for us all to step up and work together and break these gangs who are literally getting away with murder," adding "this shows the gangs who are sending people to sea will literally stop at nothing."
Following the sinking, Dunkirk prosecutors opened a criminal investigation for ‘manslaughter’ and ‘assistance with illegal immigration in an organised gang’.
It follows claims that people smugglers had organised the passage of the overcrowded boat, charging thousands to those on board to get to Britain.
