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Sailors and Marines participate in a line-crossing ceremony aboard as the ship passes the Equator May 16, 2008. It has been a long naval tradition to initiate pollywogs (sailors who have never crossed the Equator) into the Kingdom of upon their first crossing of the Equator. The line-crossing ceremony is an in various navies that commemorates a sailor's first crossing of the. The tradition may have originated with ceremonies when passing headlands, and become a 'folly' sanctioned as a boost to morale, or have been created as a test for seasoned sailors to ensure their new shipmates were capable of handling long rough times at sea. Sailors who have already crossed the Equator are nicknamed Shellbacks, Trusty Shellbacks, Honorable Shellbacks, or Sons of. Those who have not crossed are nicknamed Pollywogs, or Slimy Pollywogs; in the Royal Canadian Navy they are nicknamed Tadpoles, or Dirty Tadpoles; an earlier nickname was griffins.

Equator-crossing ceremonies, typically featuring King Neptune, are also sometimes carried out for passengers' entertainment on civilian ocean liners and cruise ships. They are also performed in the and aboard sail training ships. The two-day event (evening and day) is a ritual in which previously inducted crew members (Trusty Shellbacks) aka Seamen of the U.S.

Navy which are organized into a 'Court of Neptune' to induct the Slimy Pollywogs into 'the mysteries of the Deep'. Physical hardship, in keeping with the spirit of the initiation, is tolerated, and each Pollywog is expected to endure a standard initiation rite in order to become a Shellback.

Depending on the Ocean or Fleet AOR, there can be variations in the rite. Some rites have discussed a role reversal as follows, but this is not always a normal feature, and may be dependent on whether a small number of Shellbacks exist to conduct the initiation. The transition flows from established order to the controlled 'chaos' of the Pollywog Revolt, the beginnings of re-order in the initiation rite as the fewer but experienced enlisted crew converts the Wogs through physical tests, then back to, and thereby affirming, the pre-established order of officers and enlisted. The eve of the equatorial crossing is called Wog Day and, as with many other night-before rituals, is a mild type of reversal of the day to come. Wogs—all of the uninitiated—are allowed to capture and interrogate any shellbacks they can find (e.g., tying them up, cracking eggs or pouring aftershave lotion on their heads). [ ] The wogs are made very aware that it will be much harder on them if they do anything like this.

Line-crossing ceremony aboard on the first of July 1816. Captain of suggested the practice had developed from earlier ceremonies in Spanish, Portuguese, and Italian vessels passing notable. He thought it was beneficial to morale. FitzRoy quoted 's 1830 description in his 1839 Narrative of the surveying voyages of His Majesty's Ships Adventure and Beagle between the years 1826 and 1836. There is a detailed account of the ceremony on board in 1825 by Petty Officer John Bechervaise in his private publication Thirty-Six Years of a Sea Faring Life (1839), available from Kessinger in facsimile. Blossom was just starting a three-year voyage of exploration around the Horn to the Arctic.

A similar ceremony took place during the. As they approached the equator on the evening of 16 February 1832, a pseudo-Neptune hailed the ship. Berlin Sans Light here.

Those credulous enough to run forward to see Neptune 'were received with the watery honours which it is customary to bestow'. The officer on watch reported a boat ahead, and Captain FitzRoy ordered 'hands up, shorten sail'. Using a speaking trumpet he questioned Neptune, who would visit them the next morning. About 9am the next day, the novices or 'griffins' were assembled in the darkness and heat of the lower deck, then one at a time were blindfolded and led up on deck by 'four of Neptunes constables', as 'buckets of water were thundered all around'. The first 'griffin' was, who noted in his diary how he 'was then placed on a plank, which could be easily tilted up into a large bath of water.

— They then lathered my face & mouth with pitch and paint, & scraped some of it off with a piece of roughened iron hoop. —a signal being given I was tilted head over heels into the water, where two men received me & ducked me. —at last, glad enough, I escaped.

— most of the others were treated much worse, dirty mixtures being put in their mouths & rubbed on their faces. — The whole ship was a shower bath: & water was flying about in every direction: of course not one person, even the Captain, got clear of being wet through.' The ship's artist,, made a sketch of the scene.