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Home / Photographs / WESTPAC 1979 / Shellback / Rich P. White

Western Pacific - Indian Ocean Deployment - 1979:
Underway: Shellback Initiation - Pollywog Rich P. White

Photograph provided by Rich P. WhiteRich P. White undergoing initiation in the 1979 Shellback Initiation.

    Rich P. White undergoes his transformation from Pollywog to Shellback while Greg Blake, QM3(SS) looks on. Most of the crew were Pollywogs as this was the boats first trip across the Equator. Rich later became the Royal Baby of King Neptune during the next years initiation.

EM2(SS) R. P. White - Shellback Card

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