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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
by 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 agoMy 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.