Well done to the crew to stand up to this sort of thing, assuming the vehicle was a service provided vehicle for service use would she actually have had a services licence whatever it is called these days or insurance to drive it?
I agree with the handling of this too, poor, he should have been removed straight away and as for sailing it south his second in command should have been elected to the task if a replacement couldn't be found, if the second in command isn't deemed competent enough to do this by those further up the food chain, then he shouldn't be in the job.
i remember a certain Station Commanders wife in the past. who was driving her husbands car to collect him with the pennant on and was insisting on being saluted, she was soon put right on the subject.
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