All in Good Fun?
By Eleri Grace
Even a war didn’t
stop crew and passengers from participating in a naval tradition dating back
centuries: the Crossing the Line ceremony. Tradition held that as a ship
approached the equator, those who had made the crossing before, trusty “shellbacks,”
initiate equator-crossing virgins or “tadpoles” (I replaced the actual term
used for the initiates,
Published on January 14, 2020 00:00