The fishing fleet was an ironical reference to the shipping of unmarried young women from the UK to India during the middle and latter years of the Raj, for the purposes of becoming married to colonial administrators, officers and plantation spervisors.,,
Famous quotes containing the words fishing and/or fleet:
“Once fishing was a rabbit’s foot—
O wind blow cold, O wind blow hot,”
—Robert Lowell (1917–1977)
“They ... fleet the time carelessly, as they did in the golden world.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)