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Does this (to my mind) extraordinary event deserve a thread all of it's own ?
Being ‘Dismissed one’s Ship’ was, in my simple Supplementary List day, something of a shameful punishment for a significant offence – like negligently putting the ship on the putty, or causing a collision, or worse,
but only following a Court Martial (which BTW was, ISTR, always required if you suffered a ‘collision or grounding.’
This seems at the moment to be an outrageous and so far wholly unjustified administrative reassignment by some unaccountable ‘faceless makeweights’ (does that date me
?) who do not seem to realise that while the ship belongs to Brenda, everything aboard belongs to ‘Father’ unless or until there is a
gross transgression
It will be interesting to see what comes out of this, including the time-line.
I wonder what his crew and his relief might have to say.
I hope this is not going to go away until the Dismissal is properly explained.
I hope the new Sub Lt Defence Secretary will be asking questions.
LFH
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