It's the best advertisement for joining the Dark Blue I think I've ever read
Not so fast. I heard of a case where a destroyer was in Portsmouth only two nights before it got a ticket for an out of date registration. If you think this is bad, the Naval Policeman in charge said they had noticed the offence the night before, but it took them a while to get the ticket written out and affixed to the bridge because, being as it was for a ship it was fifty foot square.