:::Really?  It's much more pragmatic than that, isn't it?  A warship is simply a tool that a nation constructs to serve a purpose.  At the instant of its commissioning, it has done nothing honorable; it is just an assemblage of steel or wood or iron.  It is inanimate.  It, of itself, has no rights; it has no responsibilities; it simply can't.  Rights and responsibilities are conferred on the crew who will operate the ship.  Transferring CCGS Neversail from the coast guard to the navy doesn't suddenly give HMCS Neversail different rights or responsibilities; those vest in the crew. 

 :::A knight, on the other hand has done something in his life to deserve recognition by the monarch and the ensuing honor conveyed by the knighthood.  I would venture to guess that one can't be a knight from birth.  So, no, not similar at all. 

 :::We are not Ottawa Citizen nor are we Ottawa Valley; we are Wikipedia.  Between those two is a disparity of style.  One renders the ship name in uppercase while the other renders the name capitalized.  If we are to yield our style to that used by external sources, which wins? 

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