The crew busied themselves in the manufacture of needed items, and adopted patches of gun wadding as their currency.
The ship is used in a more minor role in several other Clancy books; as such, the actual ship's crew adopted the film's tagline "The Hunt Is On" as an unofficial ship's motto.
Interestingly, during the sub's construction at the Electric Boat Division of General Dynamics in Groton, CT, the crew adopted a North American Snapping Turtle as a mascot.
Subsequently, during outfitting, her crew adopted the pirate captain William Kidd as their mascot, and commissioned a local artist to paint a pirate figure on the forward smokestack.
Street Sense's crew has adopted a Zen-like approach to the challenge.
Malick and his crew adopted an experimental approach.
On the first voyage to America the crew of the Niña slept on the deck, but adopted the use of hammocks after seeing Native Americans sleeping in them.
Instead of being leather-jacketed, silk-scarved airmail pilots, the crews of the "Clippers" wore naval-style uniforms and adopted a set procession when boarding the aircraft.
The crew adopts the stowaway as a mascot, even fixing him up with an antiquated rubber space suit.
The crew instead adopted miniature effect techniques (playing on perspective) to achieve the illusion of size and grandeur for several scenes.