""crossing the Line" Certificate For Crew of HMS Anson. 9 February 1943, Aboard HMS Anson, in Arctic Waters. This Certificate Has Been Designed and Drawn Up by Officers and Men of the Battleship HMS Anson. Copies Have Been Issued To the Ship's Company As Mementoes of Their Service in Arctic Waters. Among the Hazards and Difficulties That the Members of the "bluenose Club" Contend With during Their Service in Arctic Waters Are- Temperatures Registering As Much As 43 Degrees of Frost, Ice Forming on Deck Guns To a Thickness of Over a Foot, and Wire Hawzers Caked With Ice."