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5. Officer of flag ranks 1. Carrying the President’s Flag
6. Line Commanders, including Fleet 2. Carrying other distinguishing flags
Commander, Commander or pennants
COSCOM, Flotilla Commander, 3. A flag ship
Squadron Commander and the 4. Carrying a Commanding Officer of a
Commanding Officer of higher seniority
commissioned ship. 5. A foreign warship with a
7. Foreign naval officers in uniforms at Commanding Officer of a higher
all hours. seniority.
8. When a corpse is being brought on
board or sent out of a ship. If the seniority of a foreign warship’s
Commanding Officer is not known, our
In addition, the side should normally be RSN’s ships are to pipe first.
piped for an officer entitled to it even though
he may be accompanying an officer senior The following procedures are to be done
to him who is not entitled to the call. when carrying out the piping of the ‘Still’ as
a mark of respect.
Prior to piping the ‘Side’, the ‘Still’may be
piped to alert all hands-on deck to stand to 1. The junior ship pipes the ‘Still’ first
attention until the ‘Carry On’ pipe is piped. and followed by a salute by a
However, the side is neither piped for Commissioned officer (2LT or ME4
Commanding Officers of Naval Shore and above)
Establishments, nor is the side piped at 2. Next the senior ship pipes the ‘Still’
Naval Establishments. in return and followed by a salute by
a Commissioned officer.
STILL 3. Then the senior ship pipes the ‘Carry
on’ first and the officer hauls down
the salute.
4. Then, the junior ship pipes the
‘Carry on’ first and the officer hauls
down the salute.

The still or alert is used to call the crew to
attention and is piped as a mark of respect
paid to a certain occasion or rank. With
certain exceptions, the still is only accorded
to persons specifically entitled to it.

The still is piped at the hoisting and hauling
down of colours during the Colours and
Sunset ceremony. In addition, the still is
piped between sunrise and sunset if the ship
is passing by or being passed by another
ship that is:
CARRY ON