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sonnyblarney 8y ago
My undergraduate school that I won't name was located on a 'land locked ship' in Canada. It was literally land, but commissioned and christened in the Royal Navy as a ship in the 19th century. When they closed it, they had no idea what to do, and the Canadian Navy had to call up the Royal Navy to figure out the protocol. They didn't know either. So they had to dig through their own records to figure out the right protocol. And then we did it: a 'ship decomisioning ceremony' for a land-locked ship, which I don't think has been done in a very long time in the UK/Empire, and probably never in Canada. Pretty much the entire W. Coast Canadian Navy 'paraded by' ship by ship, and a few other neat things. A sight to behold. Someone, somewhere is keeping track of all that. The interesting paradox is how from one perspective, it makes no sense, and yet from another, it makes perfect sense.
- stan_rogers 8y ago
  That sounds odd to me - more than one stone frigate in the RCN has been paid off in living memory, more than one during the unification process (which is within my memory). Yes, it's a bit of a ceremony, and necessarily a kerfuffle, but there is no reason why the protocol should have been a mystery.
  - coldacid 8y ago
    My guess is that with the restoration of name and insignia of the Royal Canadian Navy, various traditions that had been dropped or elided from unification onwards were also brought back. Paying off of stone frigates probably changed in ceremony like so many other things did with unification of the forces, and so the modern RCN had to look up the traditional ways again.
- vram22 8y ago
  >My undergraduate school that I won't name was located on a 'land locked ship' in Canada. It was literally land, but commissioned and christened in the Royal Navy as a ship in the 19th century. Interesting. Near Pune in India, there is a training institute of the Indian Navy called INS Shivaji (INS = Indian Naval Ship). I was surprised by the name when I first heard about it. Seems like the same custom as the one you mention. https://www.indiannavy.nic.in/insshivaji/ https://www.indiannavy.nic.in/insshivaji/

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sonnyblarney 8y ago

My undergraduate school that I won't name was located on a 'land locked ship' in Canada. It was literally land, but commissioned and christened in the Royal Navy as a ship in the 19th century. When they closed it, they had no idea what to do, and the Canadian Navy had to call up the Royal Navy to figure out the protocol. They didn't know either. So they had to dig through their own records to figure out the right protocol. And then we did it: a 'ship decomisioning ceremony' for a land-locked ship, which I don't think has been done in a very long time in the UK/Empire, and probably never in Canada. Pretty much the entire W. Coast Canadian Navy 'paraded by' ship by ship, and a few other neat things. A sight to behold. Someone, somewhere is keeping track of all that. The interesting paradox is how from one perspective, it makes no sense, and yet from another, it makes perfect sense.

stan_rogers 8y ago
That sounds odd to me - more than one stone frigate in the RCN has been paid off in living memory, more than one during the unification process (which is within my memory). Yes, it's a bit of a ceremony, and necessarily a kerfuffle, but there is no reason why the protocol should have been a mystery.
- coldacid 8y ago
  My guess is that with the restoration of name and insignia of the Royal Canadian Navy, various traditions that had been dropped or elided from unification onwards were also brought back. Paying off of stone frigates probably changed in ceremony like so many other things did with unification of the forces, and so the modern RCN had to look up the traditional ways again.
vram22 8y ago
>My undergraduate school that I won't name was located on a 'land locked ship' in Canada. It was literally land, but commissioned and christened in the Royal Navy as a ship in the 19th century. Interesting. Near Pune in India, there is a training institute of the Indian Navy called INS Shivaji (INS = Indian Naval Ship). I was surprised by the name when I first heard about it. Seems like the same custom as the one you mention. https://www.indiannavy.nic.in/insshivaji/ https://www.indiannavy.nic.in/insshivaji/