Fred Karno's Navy

Fred Karno's Navy: A nickname given to the Dover Patrol, suggested by its being made up of an extraordinary mixture of ships; every kind of craft – Battleships, Cruisers, Destroyers and Monitors, Submarines, Trawlers and Drifters, Motor Launches, Minelayers and Mine-sweepers, Troop Ships, Colliers, Oilers, and so on down to rafts – being represented.