The Crossing the Line ceremony at the Equator, Napoleonic era. Sailors dressed as Neptune and Amphitrite drink grog with an officer. A sailor dressed as Davy Jones ducks an uninitiated midshipman in a barrel, while other sailors carry a blindfolded officer. Other tattooed sailors throw buckets of water at each other. Handcoloured lithograph by George Cruikshank from Greenwich Hospital, a Series of Naval Sketches, by An Old Sailor (Matthew H. Barker), published by James Robins, London, 1826.

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