A joke imagines dock workers discovering that Prince of Wales has sailed to find Bismarck while they are still aboard. The correction identifies a trials crew and various fitters. Their presence belongs to that fitting-out and trials context; the joke's suggestion that ordinary harbour workers unexpectedly found themselves at sea does not supply an account of their duties.
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Prince of Wales carried trials staff and fitters
A correction to a dock-worker joke identifies the civilians aboard Prince of Wales as trials staff and fitters.