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Hi, Please add the following incident to the "Examples" section on main page. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/INS_Khukri_%281958%29

Regards 203.99.197.70 (talk) 17:33, 18 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Captain Sully

I am wondering if we should list examples like Chesley Sullenberger... men who staid on board until all passengers and crew evacuated their ship? He didn't go down with his ship, but he fulfilled the protocol as willing to do so. I like to saw logs! (talk) 06:33, 25 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Star Trek

As fiction also subscribes to this notion, this should perhaps be included. In Star Trek (2009 movie), acting captain George Kirk, father of James Tiberius, goes down with the ship.

In Star Trek Into Darkness, Khan Noonien Singh (played by Benedict Cumberbatch) taunts James Kirk 'No ship should go down without her captain'. [1] Charlemagne.1971 (talk) 07:30, 4 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Use of "Be British" as Smith's last words

Under the "notable examples" section, the last words of Captain Edward Smith was said to be "Be British" yet in the main article on Captain Smith, ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Smith_(sea_captain) ) it is noted that this may be as result of the British Press. So should a note be added here as well to that extent?

Military captains

"If a naval captain evacuates a vessel in wartime, it may be considered a capital offense similar to desertion, mutiny, or sedition unless he subsequently destroys the ship or permits it to sink."

Umm, this phrase confuses me. I would assume that if the captain let the vessel sink with sailors inside, he would be charged with desertion right? This sentence maybe is confusing abandoning ship with scuttling a war vessel to keep it out of the hands of the enemy, perhaps?

  1. ^ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YftfH-wj-c8
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