So goes the Enlish Navy

It was a dark and stormy night. No actually it was a very dark and
quiet night. No moon. We were sailing along the west coast of North
Korea, minding our own business. We had the ship completely darkened.
There was a blip on the radar, but that wasn't unusual. As we approached
the object that showed up on radar we receive a coded challange that we
were suppose to answer with the answer code. Well, the challange was
yesterday's code, so we didn't answer it. They send the challange a couple
of more times and evidently got fed up. The next thing we saw was a shell
fly across our bow to wake us up.

Time for action. No we did not go to general quarters. The captain had the
signal man light up his trusty signal light and advise the other ship who we
were and that their code was a day old. At this, they turned tail and left
the area at a very high speed. The captain had a meeting with the captain of the
British Frigit and an an incharge Admiral next time we were in port. I Don't
know what the outcome was. It could not have been very pleasant the captain
of the Frigit.