Dover Patrol

The Dover Patrol: The Naval Force in the War based in Dover. It safeguarded the passage across the Straits of Dover of Army transports, hospital ships and mercantile traffic in general; and also the vessels carrying over the King, Ministers, Ambassadors, etc. between England and France The Belgian coast bombardments were carried out by the Dover Patrol, whose crowning achievement was the attack on Zeebrugge on St. George's Day, 1918. (See Fred Karno's Navy).

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The above term is listed in our Compendium of the Great War on this day.

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