THE HMS
It is amazing that so many of our journalists, broadcast types especially, continue to refer to HM war ships as "The HMS Warspite" or similar when it is ridiculous to think of them saying "the Her Majesties Ship" On similar lines why do they also come up with statements like "The British Royal Navy" or "The British RAF" The Royal Navy was the worlds first, as was the RAF and any Johnny-come-lately had to identify themselves by their monarchs country -i.e. The Royal Swedish Navy" or "The Royal Norwegian Air Force" In other words, we came up with the Corporate Identity first
Apologies to the army but you can thank Oliver "The Lord Protector" Cromwell for the fact that, in the main, your'e not Royal.
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