[BITList] Fwd: [INDIA-BRITISH-RAJ] Crossing of the Line ceremony

[John Feltham]

Info comes from sorts of places.



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Wasn't this topic raised here some weeks ago?

Here are some nostalgic bits:

P & O and ORIENT LINERS
Image of a typical Crossing of the Line ceremony which took place
around the Bonito pool of CANBERRA while the ship steamed
through the Java Sea at 23 knots.  The outdoor setting was much
like an amphi-theatre of the ancient world,  and the treatment that
the cruise director,  Phil Raymond,  ordered for his poor victims,
including Deputy Captain Gibb,  recalled to mind the messy tortures
the Romans meted out to the Christians.  In the modern day scenario,
the poor souls were thrown to the bears,  in the ship's pool,  rather
than to the lions!  It's not only Neptune's victims that suffer.  The
Indian crew had to mop up the considerable mess created by all
the spilled 'blood'  (red confectioners sugar).

http://iancoombe.tripod.com/id31.html

Also see:

http://www.polkcounty.org/timonier/speaks/book14.html

http://www.eraoftheclipperships.com/page50web7.html

Mention of the programme for the Crossing of the Line ceremony on
the H.M.T. OMRAH from England to India - held on May 24th,1917.

http://1914-1918.invisionzone.com/forums/index.php?s=201ac7aec1fdc125508df488282d5d6c&showtopic=80579&pid=862556&st=0&#entry862556



ooroo

If you don't hear the knock of opportunity - build a door.

Anon.



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