Canopus (AS 34) - Naval Cruise Book

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Set the Special Equator Detail And that ' s just what CANOPUS poUywogs did - for a short while. With certain doom knocking at the CANOPUS brow, pollywogs rebelled, kidnapping unaware shellbacks and initiating them Into the ways of Pollywog World. John Paul Jones would have been proud of them. m i t k « w - r M t I I

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Equator Know ye: That on this 26 day of Febru- ary 1970, in Latitude 00 and Longitude 84° W. there appeared within Our Royal Domain the USS CANOPUS (AS-34) . Be it remembered that the said vessel and Officers and Crew thereof, have been inspected and passed on by Ourself and Our Royal Staff. DAVEY JONES King Neptune ' s Scribe 23

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Don ' t Give Up The Ship Just before reaching the Equator, a special sea detail was set the likes CANOPUS has never seen and probably will never again. Mail and athletic watches, look-outs, marine security guards, and a special shell- back bridge watch ... all played an important role in searching for the Royal Party.