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The Origins of the New Year’s Deck Log Poetry Tradition

Midwatch in Verse Posted on May 15, 2022 by Gary GuinnJanuary 26, 2023

  More than sixty years ago, in the January 1959 issue of the US Naval Institute Proceedings, Captain Robert W. McNitt, USN, wrote an article describing the unusual Navy tradition of writing the New Year’s deck log on US ships … Continue reading →

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