Much like Washington’s Crossing of the Unaware.

Russian naval ship ‘disguised’ itself while passing through English Channel
BBC | 06/24/2025 | Ned Davies, Joshua Cheetham & Matt Murphy

{Very glad they assigned Mr. “Cheetham” to this story.}

A Russian warship disguised itself using a fake ID signal while travelling through the English Channel with two sanctioned oil tankers, a BBC Verify investigation has found.

The Boikiy – a corvette armed with guided missiles – broadcast the fake ID code as it passed through the Channel on Saturday.

• Transmitted: “Would you like to come back to my place, Boikiy Boikiy?”
• Pretended to be fish looking for chips and greasy capitalist newspapers.
• Nobody expects the Spanish Borschtmada!
• Pretended to be zlotysom and nyetsome.
• Pretended to be battleships Scharnhorst and Gneisenau and the heavy cruiser Prinz Eugen.
• Endorsed — in the clear, loudly — rum, sodomy, and the lash.
• Pretended to be filming remake of “The Russians Are Coming! The Russians Are Coming!” with Shelley Winters in the role of Jonathan Winters. Who doesn’t want to see that?
• Told Prince Charles — I mean, King Charles — they were Greta on yet another mission.
• Signalled “England Expects Every Man Will Pay His Duty.”
• Pretended to be a flotilla of illegal muslim immigrants from Iraq of Gibralter.
• Sang “Rus Britannia” in thoroughly vodka-soaked voices.
• Went at tea-time.