[Tradition] Skylarks [Significance] 
Annual class practical joke or prank Apples taken from the Commandant's trees at 2am were brought back to the doors of popular seniors. A whaler was taken to dockyard and the Navy Dockyard flag was liberated and run up the RRMC mast. A dinghy was strung up the mast in front of the Castle and left there. A cow was chained to the top of Neptune stairs where the Director of Cadets held his morning parade. The Cadet Wing Commander had the 1st year cadets muster in the common rooms while 2nd years took their rooms apart, moved their mattresses out and ran their sheets from building to building. The cadets scrambled back to their rooms to prepare for an inspection of their rooms to find no beds. During 100 days to grad parties, 4th years were not allowed to sleep in their dorm. Instead, the 3rd years took their beds and moved them around the college. Cadets might find their bed - up a tree or in a hall. The DCadet found a cadet's bed in the DCadets residence and another in the yard. University of Victoria copper dome was painted 'RRMC #1' in 1982. Cadets took a whaler to Esquimalt dockyards and attached a can painted to look like an explosive device to the side of destroyer. Cadets would routinely kidnap senior cadets and/or staff members, transport them to the rock (a tiny rock island in the lagoon) and maroon them there. On at least one occasion, tables were turned and the "victims" were able to maroon one or more of the kidnapper cadets themselves.