Eastwind (WAGB 279) - Naval Cruise Book

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Pi . U T I N Y M Q l Shorn pollywog hears charges read against him by Tribunal ofthe deep. Mutiny broke out on the Antarctica-bound everyone aboard the Eastwind was a shell- Eastwind the afternoon of Nov.5, 1961. The baek, but there Were many fermer Pollywog 269-foot White cutter was on her Way to join 0ffiCerS and men Who Were 801118 to be Othgf Ships on Qperation Dggpffeeze in New wearing their hats Clamped tight OI! f,l'191l' Zealand before cutting a -swath in the ice for h9adS fOr awhile- ships supplying scientific, stations at the South Pole. 5 The -first indication of unrest among the crew occured when the shipneared the Equa- tor near noon. All pollywogs Qthose who have never before been across the Equatorj were ordered by the shellbacks Cthose who have been across in the pastj to report to ex the bow of the ship in swimsuits. A shell- 'xx back's command law and pollywogs must obey. As soon as the pollywogs were as- ,A sembled, the shellbacks turned firehoses on them. 1 : Captain Joseph W. Naab Jr., the East- wind's commanding officer and himself a pollywog, led the mutiny. Grab those hoses men he said, pointing to some other it fire hoses strewn about. In a very few minutes the 137 pollywogs had the 83 shell- L-5 backs scurrying for cover 'i'r The shellbacks won the final victory however. During the late afternoon initiation ceremony, King Neptune and his scribe Davy 1 Jones prescribed cruel and unusual punish- -. 2331 . we ments for the mutinous pollywogs. Soon f Easfwind's skipper goesfhrough the line. I S .. . .... a.......- - . ..,... . v M