[5] Protea was eventually sold by the Royal Navy and renamed MV Queen of the Bay[5] where she went on to operate as a pleasure craft out of Blackpool.

Under these clauses, South Africa would assume responsibility for hydrographic survey of its own waters, create a permanent sea-going navy, and expand the dockyard in Simonstown.

[8] There was no official welcome for the first ships of the new navy, but there was a report in the Cape Times that read "His Majesty's Surveying Vessel Crozier, which with the trawlers Eden and Foyle, have been acquired by the Union Government to form the nucleus of the South African Navy, arrived here last night from England, calling en route at Gibraltar, Las Palmas, Sierra Leone, Lagos, St Paul de Loanda and Walfisch Bay.

"[1] Although being commissioned on 1 April 1922, she retained the name Crozier for a year after arriving in South Africa and was renamed HMSAS Protea on 2 December 1922.

[1] HMSAS Protea was refitted as a pleasure craft and renamed SS Queen of the Bay circa.