Collection of 9 Neptune Crawl Photographs

by Wwii, Navy

$200 · Offered by Type Punch Matrix · No longer available

np: ca. 1945? . Small photograph collection of a Crossing the Line ceremony aboard an unnamed WWII-era US naval ship. Very good +. Item #41433 A long-established naval tradition dating back at least until the 19th century, such Sons of Neptune proceedings initiate sailors Pollywogs after their first crossing of the equator by their more seasoned shipmates Shellbacks . Though these ceremonial hazings could be brutal, the one here portrayed seems

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