toucans wrote:Thu Nov 11, 2010 10:14 am Found this:
http://www.gunplot.net/crossingline/ctl1.html
with contemporaneous chapter and verse description of the traditional ceremony "paying homage to King Neptune" when she crossed the equator between Colombo and Australia in 1919.
In the log? Just a note of the longitude........
Royal Visitor for "Cairo"
Lancsgreybeard wrote:Wed Jun 22, 2011 4:55 pm 4 April, 1923 "Cairo" is in the Indian Ocean between Ceylon and Mauritius and records
Stopped engines, H.M.M. King Neptune boarded
No Royal Salute was fired
lgb
and the following day
H.M.M. King Neptune held court on board
h.kohler wrote:Sun Aug 07, 2011 1:13 pm How it is done:
http://www.battleships-cruisers.co.uk/c ... e_line.htm
HM King Neptune
Helen J wrote: Espeigle has just crossed the equator (on the way from Colombo to the Seychelles - some people have all the luck!) and there's a wonderful log entry:
Received HM King Neptune and Court. Carried out initiation.
Given that the previous entry included 'rigged canvas bath' it was obviously a wet initiation!
I know this must have happened plenty of times, but has anyone else found it recorded in their log?
http://oldweather.s3.amazonaws.com/ADM% ... 0104_1.jpg
Thursday Next wrote: HMS Mantua, 17 April 1918
https://s3.amazonaws.com/oldweather/ADM ... 0011_1.jpg
4.30pm Neptune arrived on board
