The legal status of a military vessel that has been permanently decommissioned and erased from a country's official naval registry. Once a ship is stricken, it is no longer considered an active warship and is usually slated for scrapping, sinking as an artificial reef, or sale to a foreign military.
Heard on the job
The old destroyer was stricken from the register last year and is heading to the breakers.
Also heard as
- struck