The Kaiser's Pirates by Nick Hewitt

Author:Nick Hewitt
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Skyhorse Publishing
Published: 2014-03-12T16:00:00+00:00

Neptune’s ‘initiates’ – those who had never ‘crossed the line’ before – were allowed to change into something more appropriate, in Fraser Shaw’s case football shorts and a vest, before being speedily dunked in a canvas bath of salt water.

Hanging over the bath were two revolving boxes on which one sat to be shaved, and from which one was violently ejected into the bath below . . . all except some half dozen of the officers had to go through, some of the youngsters getting a good ducking from all the Bears and Devils in the retinue . . . they had passed some 240 victims through before dinner, so that the water for the afternoon performance was getting somewhat thick.49

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