Even funnier than that, Switzerland still has a navy to this day. It only operates on lakes, but still, it’s a navy!
Don’t forget the Luxemburg Navy!
A few years before the outbreak of the First World War, Churchill was at a diplomatic reception. An Italian military attaché asked a Luxembourgeois diplomat about a medal he was wearing. ‘It is an ancient order called the Royal Admiralty Cross,’ the diplomat replied stiffly. After he had stalked off, the Italian turned to the First Lord of the Admiralty, Winston Churchill, and remarked how odd it was that Luxembourg should have this when it did not even have a navy. ‘Why shouldn’t they have an admiralty?’ Churchill answered cheerfully. ‘You in Italy, after all, have a minister of finance – yet you don’t have a treasury!’
W. S. Churchill