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Title: Are you a shellback?
Post by: Sandman on April 15, 2003, 08:52:24 PM
Wogs need not respond.
Title: Are you a shellback?
Post by: Hangtime on April 15, 2003, 08:59:13 PM
august 22, 1982, SV Ruana

i was keelhauled.

symbolicly, of course.
Title: Are you a shellback?
Post by: Sandman 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...
Title: Are you a shellback?
Post by: Martlet on April 15, 2003, 09:11:44 PM
Yeah.
Title: Are you a shellback?
Post by: Hangtime on April 15, 2003, 09:15:20 PM
(http://members.cox.net/gprimmer2/images/cg16.jpg) USS LEAHY

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

Squid.

;)
Title: Are you a shellback?
Post by: Sandman 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
Title: Are you a shellback?
Post by: Gyro/T69 on April 15, 2003, 09:28:26 PM
"It looked more like this when I left:"

never mind. dont work with netscape 4
Title: Are you a shellback?
Post by: Hangtime 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. ;)
Title: Are you a shellback?
Post by: anonymous 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. :)
Title: Are you a shellback?
Post by: Sandman 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... (http://www.hullnumber.com/photos/big/CG/CG-16.image.jpg)
Title: Are you a shellback?
Post by: Hangtime 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.
Title: Are you a shellback?
Post by: Martlet on April 15, 2003, 10:18:49 PM
(http://www.destroyersonline.com/images/f1075001.jpg)

Not my duty, but I got my shellback and ESWS while assigned to this ship for a few months.
Title: Are you a shellback?
Post by: funkedup 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.  :)
Title: Are you a shellback?
Post by: Furious on April 16, 2003, 12:51:20 AM
trusty shellback since 1986

USS Chandler DDG-996
(http://navysite.de/dd/Image732.jpg)
"ad mortem fidelis"

crap, i just found out she was decommisioned in '99.
Title: Are you a shellback?
Post by: VAQ 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  :D  We also "Did the Ditch" (Suez Canal).
Title: Are you a shellback?
Post by: rpm on April 16, 2003, 02:59:35 AM
Not a Shellback, but I am a Blue Nose Polar Bear! 18AUG79:cool:
(http://www.orneveien.org/adak/batch2/uscg.jpg)
Title: Are you a shellback?
Post by: Sandman on April 16, 2003, 10:38:49 AM
Quote
Originally posted by Furious
trusty shellback since 1986

USS Chandler DDG-996
(http://navysite.de/dd/Image732.jpg)
"ad mortem fidelis"

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


I work with a guy that was on the Chandler then... Mike Pierce.
Title: Are you a shellback?
Post by: AWMac on April 16, 2003, 10:46:32 AM
Martlet,  is that a Knox class DE?  My Dad is a plank owner on the DE-1052 Knox.  

:D
Title: Are you a shellback?
Post by: Curval on April 16, 2003, 10:51:09 AM
Is a shellback someone who has had their "turn" in the barrel with a hole in it?
Title: Are you a shellback?
Post by: lord dolf vader on April 16, 2003, 10:54:31 AM
I believe that is the marines

they have their own deal. we try not to make fun.
Title: Are you a shellback?
Post by: Martlet on April 16, 2003, 10:55:21 AM
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Originally posted by AWMac
Martlet,  is that a Knox class DE?  My Dad is a plank owner on the DE-1052 Knox.  

:D


That is a Knox class.  They changed from DE to FF.  My unit used to hop on those all the time.  Small ships, but pretty cool.

I was sent to that when they were selling it to the Greeks.
Title: Are you a shellback?
Post by: Wlfgng on April 16, 2003, 11:03:51 AM
hey rpm I'm one too.. only the Antartic and the Westwind..
I think Pyro was on that pig of a vessel too :)
Title: Are you a shellback?
Post by: Jester on April 16, 2003, 11:32:55 AM
Hey SANDMAN!

Is your buddy Mike Pierce from Oklahoma?
He might be an old squad mate of mine from JG 51 MOLDERS.
Ask him if you would please.
!
Title: Are you a shellback?
Post by: Sandman on April 16, 2003, 02:47:08 PM
Not the same guy, Andijg... sorry.
Title: Are you a shellback?
Post by: funkedup on April 16, 2003, 02:57:16 PM
Quote
Originally posted by VAQ
Apparently a different ritual in a different Navy, funked
 


Vaq I found a website dedicated to the ritual and there were just way too many photos of sailors dressed up as women.  :)
Title: Are you a shellback?
Post by: Martlet on April 16, 2003, 04:28:36 PM
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Originally posted by funkedup
Vaq I found a website dedicated to the ritual and there were just way too many photos of sailors dressed up as women.  :)


Unfortunately, one of those guys may have been me  :rolleyes:
Title: Are you a shellback?
Post by: Wlfgng on April 16, 2003, 04:48:42 PM
oh yeah..
squids have been known to dress 'up'        :):eek:
Title: Are you a shellback?
Post by: funkedup on April 16, 2003, 05:00:31 PM
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Originally posted by Martlet
Unfortunately, one of those guys may have been me  :rolleyes:


HEY YOU LOOKED PRETTY HOT :D
Title: Are you a shellback?
Post by: Martlet on April 16, 2003, 05:07:14 PM
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Originally posted by funkedup
HEY YOU LOOKED PRETTY HOT :D


They have a "beauty contest", and every division onboard has to submit a contestant, including the SOS team and flight detachment.

I was team leader at the time, so I was unanimously elected.  My gf saw the pictures, and didn't even recognize it as me.  She said I looked darn good in a skirt, though.
Title: Are you a shellback?
Post by: VAQ on April 16, 2003, 05:20:51 PM
Quote
Originally posted by funkedup
Vaq I found a website dedicated to the ritual and there were just way too many photos of sailors dressed up as women.  :)


have your fun. :)

I found a Web site that has an image of a shellback certificate from 1945.  The certificate reads almost exactly the same as the one I have from 33 years later.
Title: Are you a shellback?
Post by: midnight Target on April 16, 2003, 06:17:17 PM
Sounds like the Village People had it right all along...


In the Navy......
Title: Are you a shellback?
Post by: VAQ on April 16, 2003, 06:25:04 PM
quiet you wogs
Title: Brrrr
Post by: rpm on April 16, 2003, 10:11:29 PM
Quote
Originally posted by Wlfgng
hey rpm I'm one too.. only the Antartic and the Westwind..
I think Pyro was on that pig of a vessel too :)


Sweet! Thank God I didn't do any Breakers. Nice Liberty ports, but they don't make up for the time crackin'. Had friends on Polar Star, Polar Sea and Mackinaw. (BTW Boutwell is in Iraqi waters now)
Title: Are you a shellback?
Post by: Arlo on April 16, 2003, 10:47:00 PM
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Originally posted by VAQ
quiet you wogs


Blackshoes gotta have sumpin! ;)
Title: Are you a shellback?
Post by: Swag Abroad on April 17, 2003, 06:25:53 AM
Shellback - 10 December 1981  South Atlantic Ocean

Bluenose - 17 July 1983  Arctic Ocean

Uss Groton (SSN 694)
Title: Are you a shellback?
Post by: milnko on April 17, 2003, 06:59:53 AM
Since Feb 1983 crossed at LAT 00000, Long 71deg 10.0 E

BlueNose 1985
Title: Are you a shellback?
Post by: Wlfgng on April 17, 2003, 09:16:23 AM
I crossed in 1983           against my better judgement !  lol
Title: Are you a shellback?
Post by: Rockstar on April 17, 2003, 11:22:44 AM
Quote
Originally posted by Wlfgng
hey rpm I'm one too.. only the Antartic and the Westwind..
I think Pyro was on that pig of a vessel too    



dang I was on the Westwind too.  Transferred while in shipyards in NOLA just before the crunch down south.  Made 1 artic east and 1 west trip.
Title: Are you a shellback?
Post by: Wlfgng on April 17, 2003, 11:55:59 AM
small world :)
I was on right after the 'crunch'.. that was one big-ass  hole