Boats are like humans in so many ways. They are born at somewhere some time and then have a real life of their own.
Boats are integrated with their people who live, work, struggle inside.
Thus, when word comes that boat X will be deactivated, her own people feel very depressed and sometimes humiliated although it is so reasonable to come to an end for everything including boats and human. This is a normal case. In Turkish submarine history there happened three major losses, in which so many valiant submariners were lost with their boats. Here we will not deal with whys and wherefores of these losses. What we care is to make their memories alive.