Reflections on life, meaning and purpose

Have you ever heard of this Navy tradition? Babies are baptized in the ship’s bell…..

Today I learned that the US Navy traditionally allows the infant children of crew members to be baptized in the upturned ship’s bell. A 2021 Navy press release about such a baptism onboard the USS Kearsarge says that this tradition was borrowed from the Royal Navy which permitted the such rites in foreign ports either in or under the bell.