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  Traditionally, the youngest member of the ship's company has two unique roles. One is to help the Captain (sometimes with his wife alongside him) to stir the Christmas pudding before cooking it, and the other is to wear the Captains cap (and other items of uniform clothing as appropriate) on Christmas Day when visiting the mess-decks with the Captain. On HMS Eagle back in 1959, he had another role! On this occasion, the youngster was a baby stoker, The Queen was 33 and Prince Charles was 11, and, the full size grog (or rum) tub bearing the words THE QUEEN GOD BLESS HER which HMS Eagle used, had still eleven years of daily use left before it too became an ornament like the miniature version given to the young Prince. The Captain is adding neat rum as a recipe ingredient.