Ship Decommissioning
To decommission a ship is to terminate its career in service in the armed forces of a nation. A somber occasion, it has little of the elaborate ceremony of ship commissioning, but carries significant tradition.
In modern use the term paid off is used by some navies, a reference to the crews being given their pay when their service on the ship was complete.
Read more about Ship Decommissioning: Ship Decommissioning in The United States Navy, Ship Decommissioning in The Indian Navy
Famous quotes containing the word ship:
“There be three things which are too wonderful for me, yea, four which I know not: the way of an eagle in the air; the way of a serpent upon a rock; the way of a ship in the midst of the sea; and the way of a man with a maid.”
—Bible: Hebrew Proverbs, 30:18-19.
From the oracle of Agur, son of Jakeh.