Mount Baker (AE 34) - Naval Cruise Book

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TOP LEFT ■ A never ending line of polywogs wait their turn to era wl to the royal baby, GMG3 Moore, and find the cherry buried in his greased stomach. CW03 Hale (left) is seen taunting the wogs or perhaps hunting out the alias Billy Budd. ' ' TOP RIGHT ■ SN Porter raises his leg to fend off the swatting shellbacks to no avail. RIGHT ■ Although SN Seraile looks to be stuck to the flight deck, he ' s just carrying out an assigned task of blowing the water out of a tie-down padeye.

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LEFT ■ QMC Shearn (left) left his charts to take the role of King Neptune during this special day. Chief Shearn, who received the part for being the oldest shellback on board, is seen here accepting the challenge of cleaning Captain Hetherington ' s ship of all polywogs. BOTTOM LEFT - OS3 Jarret illustrates how to make a slimy wog even more slimy. Here the week-old shellback gets revenge on SM2 Pipkin during the return trip across the Equator. BOTTOM RIGHT - Angered by the polywog ' s chant of Wogs! Wogs! Wogs!, the Executive Officer, LCDR Wright, raises his shillelagh ready to come down on the bullseye backside of the lowly polywogs.

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TOP LEFT ■ Here Woggy. Here, SM2 Pipkin is led by his master SHSN Cook on Wog Day 11. TOP MIDDLE ■ The Royal Baby (GMG3 Moore) appears to be saying come and get it. to the next unfortunate wog in line. TOP RIGHT ■ SN Juszczak comes out of the shellback baptism pool yelling I ' m a shellback! LEFT ■ CDR Bohman takes a breather and squints from under the slime covering his face. RIGHT ■ SA Allison reluctantly stoops to a degrading position as he kisses King Neptune ' s toe.