NRU74, wasn't it something like "Has with courage and fortitude undergone the rigours of the course"?
As for the 'Heave-ho', I recall being told that if some antique fishhead relic-of-the-Korean-War Whirlwind turned up and a rope, sorry, a 'sheet' appeared out of the door, it was better to play dead than to risk being hauled up by the matelots...
