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of a long, heavy canvas runner, about 10–12 meters. The shellbacks had prepared 3-foot lengths of canvas/rubber firehose, which they swung hard at the posterior of each Wog. The Wogs then ascended a ladder to the boat deck to slide down a makeshift chute into the baptism of messdeck leavings in sea water in an inflated liferaft back on the superstructure deck. Wogs then returned to the
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Bellaconda "crossed the line," and there was the usual horseplay among the sailors when Father Neptune came aboard to hold court. Those who had never before been below the equator were made to undergo more or less of an initiation, being lathered and shaved, and then pushed backward into a canvas
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observed that they were under social pressure to do the ceremony but were targets of harder abuse. Pollywogs (midshipmen and anyone else who had not crossed) ascended a ladder from the forecastle to the superstructure deck of the ship. There, they crawled down a gauntlet of
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Shellbacks), who officiate at the ceremony, which is often preceded by a beauty contest of men dressing up as women, each department of the ship being required to introduce one contestant in swimsuit drag.
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observed the line-crossing ceremony until 1989, after which the ceremony was deemed to be hazing and was forbidden. The 1989 crossing was fairly typical, as it was not realized to be the last one. Pollywogs participated voluntarily, though female
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weather buoy. When a ship must cross the Equator reasonably close to one of these meridians, the ship's captain might plot a course across the
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Richardson, Keith P. (1 April 1977). "Western Folklore".
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627:Neptune Day celebration on the Fall 2013 voyage of
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816:Variations to the Shellback designation include:
1995:Line-crossing Ceremony: Homophobic or Homoerotic?
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1764:"List of Unofficial U.S. Navy Certificates"
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1911:de Choisy, Abbé (1993).
1421:. Milism.net. 1993-06-22
1350:Eyers, Jonathan (2011).
761:Star Spangled Shellbacks
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2953:Marine Corps University
2949:Naval Community College
2933:Naval University System
2692:Yard and district craft
1917:Oxford University Press
1299:, crosses the equator.
1111:International Date Line
843:Royal Diamond Shellback
697:Royal Diamond Shellback
644:officers and enlisted.
3206:Revolt of the Admirals
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3066:Awards and decorations
1876:NASA Ocean Exploration
1817:"The Certified Sailor"
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2248:Carrier strike group
1894:www.shortsnorter.org
1796:. September 27, 2017
873:Top Secret Shellback
792:Dwight D. Eisenhower
431:or sometimes simply
414:Honorable Shellbacks
188:, are common in the
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3300:Neptune (mythology)
2421:Naval Safety Center
2381:Fleet Cyber Command
2017:on ships' ceremony.
2015:USS Bailey web page
1966:- The Anti-Vacation
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1035:Straits of Magellan
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1360:978-1-4081-3131-2
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