Author Topic: Are you a shellback? (Read 1541 times)

Sandman · « **on:** April 15, 2003, 08:52:24 PM »

Wogs need not respond.

Hangtime · « **Reply #1 on:** April 15, 2003, 08:59:13 PM »

august 22, 1982, SV Ruana

i was keelhauled.

symbolicly, of course.

Sandman · « **Reply #2 on:** April 15, 2003, 09:03:08 PM »

Hehe... I think keel-hauling would have been deadly on the Leahy (CG-16)... it was a rather deep draft.

Autumn... 1984... Near the Straits of Malacca. Can't remember the day... got the card somewhere around here...

Martlet · « **Reply #3 on:** April 15, 2003, 09:11:44 PM »

Yeah.

Hangtime · « **Reply #4 on:** April 15, 2003, 09:15:20 PM »

USS LEAHY

yah.. gettin keelhauled on that thing oughta net yah more than a gawdamned card, IMHO.

Squid.

Sandman · « **Reply #5 on:** April 15, 2003, 09:24:04 PM »

That's a pretty old pic... no SPS-49. No CIWS. It's also missing Harpoons.

It looked more like this when I left:

http://www.navsource.org/archives/04/04011608.jpg

Gyro/T69 · « **Reply #6 on:** April 15, 2003, 09:28:26 PM »

"It looked more like this when I left:"

never mind. dont work with netscape 4

Hangtime · « **Reply #7 on:** April 15, 2003, 09:28:30 PM »

i like how warships don't look all doughty and and wrinkled as they age. They get leaner, meaner, and better the older they get.

Squid boy. Nice package.

anonymous · « **Reply #8 on:** April 15, 2003, 09:31:45 PM »

allegedly i am. didnt know it until placed under hypnosis and all the repressed memories came back.

Sandman · « **Reply #9 on:** April 15, 2003, 09:32:43 PM »

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Originally posted by Gyro/T69
"It looked more like this when I left:"

never mind. dont work with netscape 4

****e...

Hangtime · « **Reply #10 on:** April 15, 2003, 09:33:34 PM »

LOL.. similar experience... they told me, i didn't believe 'em. they had pictures. i was shocked.

i think my livers still there.

Martlet · « **Reply #11 on:** April 15, 2003, 10:18:49 PM »

Not my duty, but I got my shellback and ESWS while assigned to this ship for a few months.

funkedup · « **Reply #12 on:** April 15, 2003, 11:33:45 PM »

I've read about this ritual. All I gotta say is I wouldn't drop the soap around sailors.

Furious · « **Reply #13 on:** April 16, 2003, 12:51:20 AM »

trusty shellback since 1986

USS Chandler DDG-996

"ad mortem fidelis"

crap, i just found out she was decommisioned in '99.

VAQ · « **Reply #14 on:** April 16, 2003, 01:37:34 AM »

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Originally posted by funkedup
I've read about this ritual. All I gotta say is I wouldn't drop the soap around sailors.

Apparently a different ritual in a different Navy, funked

~~IMPERIUM NEPTUNI REGIS~~

To All Sailors Wherever Ye May Be and to all Mermaids, Sea Serpents, Porpoises, Sharks, Dolphins, Eels, Skates, Crabs, Lobsters and all other Living Things of the Sea

GREETING
Know ye that on this 29th day of November 1978 in Latitude 00000 and Longitude 123'27 there appeared within Our Royal Domain the U.S.S. INDEPENDENCE CV-62 bound for the Equator

BE IT REMEMBERED that the said Vessel and Officers and Crew there of have been inspected and passed on by Ourself and Our Royal Staff And Be It Known By all ye Sailor, Marines, Land Lubber and others who may be honored by his presence that <vaq> having been found worthy to be numbered as one of our Trusty Shellbacks he has been duly initiated into the

SOLEMN MYSTERIES OF THE ANCIENT ORDER OF THE DEEP

Be It Further Understood that by the power invested in me I do hereby command all my subjects to show due honor and respect to him wherever he may be

Disobey this order under penalty of Our Royal Displeasure

Given under Our hand and seal this November 29th 1978

Davey Jones
His Majesty's Scribe

Neptunus Rex
Ruler of the Raging Main

By His Servant
D. Shanahan, Commanding

I still have my certificate, and a dent in my skull from the ceremony. Poor old Indy- they scrapped her in 1998. Should have scrapped her in 1978

We also "Did the Ditch" (Suez Canal).