A short distance before the crossing, the boat paralleled out, sailed some distance along the Equator and was blessed one last time by the Northern Hemisphere with a mild shower.

As a signalman third class, he first crossed the equator that year and made a second crossing in 1961, so he was both a pollywog and a shellback more than 60 years ago, when line-crossing ...

The USS Wasp honored a longtime maritime tradition of “crossing the line” as the ship crossed the equator this weekend.

Joe Schmidt joined the Navy in 1959 when he was 17 years old. As a signalman third class, he first crossed the equator that year and made a second crossing in 1961, so he was both a pollywog and a ...