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  Michael Bankson April 17, 2012 at 12:16pm

  USS Prairie (AD-15), 1984
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  Ron Elshire April 17, 2012 at 11:48am

  Does anyone know where I can get a shellback certificate..my ex destroyed mine.
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  Deanna Little April 17, 2012 at 11:11am

  uss hector*
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  Ron Elshire April 15, 2012 at 3:07pm

  Crossed the line aboard the USS Mt Katmai..making a port call in Singapre...Skipper at the time was Capt Curtis Loyal Tarbell, USN
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  George Best March 26, 2012 at 12:46pm

  Became a Shellback aboard the USS Hunley AS-31 in 1973 on the way to Sydney Australia. What a cruise. The Hunley had two stowaways from New Zealand when we left Australia. Wonder whatever happened to those women....and the sailors that brought them on board....
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  Jim Padget March 26, 2012 at 12:17pm

  I crossed the "line" in December of 1972 after a one week port-stay in Singapore aboard the USS Midway CVA-41.  We crossed, I believe it was two days or perhaps three after the Bob Hope Christmas Show that was filmed on the flight deck, where a can of Coke was going for upwards of $5 per can!

  I recall picking on the XO of the ship the night before our crossing, and as a result they made me a "special case", but the ijit's that hit us with the fire hoses on the first "station" of torture washed off the red X and I flew through the rest of the initiation even sneaking past the XO who was on the lookout for me...who knew a ceremony like that could be so much 'clean' fun.
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  Mark Steven Allen March 25, 2012 at 4:02pm

  I became a trusty Shellback on my first ship, USS Carl Vinson (CVN 70), while in the I.O. back in 1987!!! I've been beat'in wogs down ever since!!! LOL
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  FTM2 George anderson March 25, 2012 at 2:57pm

  I crossed the Equator aboard the USS Meyerkord FF 1058 on December 18th 1981 Latitude 00-00 Longitude 75.2E headed for Diego Garcia
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  Steve Routh December 5, 2011 at 4:11pm

  Became a Shellback on the John F Kennedy, CV 67. Initiated Pollywogs on USS Long Beach CGN-9. I was one of the Royal Doctors.
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  Mark E Walton October 30, 2011 at 10:15pm

  My first crossing was 07/17/1980 onboard the USS Wichita in the Indian Ocean; crossing was delayed due to our losing a detached helo from HC-11 name Sideflare 70. We lost three of the four crewmen onboard.  Was a very somber ceremony for most of us and for me personally as I flew with them taking pictures for an article in the Naval Aviation Magazine.  Our time at sea during this period was 109 days.