Initiation rites

Crossing the line in HMS Hawkins, February 1924.
1924. 30 pp, plates.
HMS Hood. Souvenir of the Crossing the Line ceremonies, Saturday 15th December, 1923.
[Cape Town?], 1923. 8vo, 13 pp.
"Bunx": Crossing the line in HMS Southampton. A naval episode.
c1922. 8vo, 47 pp.
(Axwik, Axel): Barkskeppet Senta. Hemmahörande i Göteborg.
Svenska Segelfartyg årg. 1, Malmö, 1936-37. pp 64-69, ill.
Berg, Jonas: Hönsning och linjedop.
Sjöhistorisk Årsbok 1969-1970, Stockholm, 1971. pp 130-133, ill.
Bridport: Sailors' baptism in Scandinavian waters.
The Mariner's Mirror Vol. 40, London, 1954. pp 313-314.
Fletcher, John: Welcome to the Court of King Neptune.
Sea Breezes Vol. 63, Liverpool, 1989. pp 399-402, ill.
Henningsen, Henning: Crossing the equator. Sailors' baptism and other initiation rites.
Munksgaard, Copenhagen, 1961. 8vo, 324 pp, ill.
Henningsen, Henning: Indvielses- og optagningsskikke tilsøs.
Handels- og Søfartsmuseet på Kronborg. Årbog 1948, Helsingør, 1948. pp 58-68.
Henningsen, Henning: Linje- og vendekredsdåb på norske og danske skibe op til 1814.
Skib og sjøfolk, Tønsberg, 1961. pp 35-63, ill. Summary: Line and Tropic baptism in Norwegian and Danish ships until 1814.
Henningsen, Henning: Sailor's Baptism.
The Mariner's Mirror Vol. 41, London, 1955. pp 163-165.
Henningsen, Henning: Sailors' Baptism in Scandinavian Waters.
The Mariner's Mirror vol. 40, London, 1954. pp 196-205.
Henningsen, Henning & Ireland, John E. de Courcy & Edgell, J.R.: Sailor's Baptism.
The Mariner's Mirror vol. 42, London, 1956. pp 152-153.
Holmbäck, Åke: Dopet vid Kullen.
Upsala Universitets årsskrift, Upsala, 1955.
Häggström, Georg: Ett linjedop i barken Favell.
Longitude 12, Stockholm, 1977. pp 74-75.
Layard, A.F.C.: Sailor's Baptism.
The Mariner's Mirror Vol. 41, London, 1955. p 244.
Loorits, Oskar: About the Baptism of Novices as Practised by the Baltic Sailors.
Tautosakos Darbu I, Kaunas, 1935.
Lydenberg, Harry Miller: Crossing the line. Tales of the ceremony during four centuries.
New York Public Library, New York, 1957. 8vo, 239 pp.
Marsden, Victor E.: Crossing the line with His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales ... in HMS Renown, Friday-Saturday, April 16-17, 1920.
Angus & Robertson, Sydney, 1920. 8vo, 48 pp, plates.
May, W.E.: Sailors's Baptism: Johanna.
The Mariner's Mirror vol. 42, London, 1956. p 323.
Ohlson, Manfred ed.: När Victor Johnson passerade linjen.
Rospiggen Nr 31, Elmsta, 1970. pp 141, ill.
Pieske, Christa: Glaube und Brauch der seefahrenden Bevölkerung der deutschen Ostseeküste.
Jahrbuch das Albertus-Universität zu Köningsberg IV, 1954.
Schmidt, Fred.: Von den Bräuchen der Seeleute.
Hamburg, 1947.
Setterwall, Henrik: Min första världsomsegling (Som jungman i barkskeppet Tropic av Stockholm).
Rospiggen Nr 41, Elmsta, 1980. pp 79-97, ill.
Thompson, Edgar K.: Sailor Baptism on the St Lawrence River.
The Mariner's Mirror vol. 58, London, 1972. p 166.

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