Ark Mariner Degree 

This Masonic Degree seems to have been first mentioned in a 1790 Lodge meeting in Bath.

The Royal Ark Mariner Degree came under the wing of the Mark Masons in 1816.

It is said to teach that education is the reward of labor and that fraud can never succeed.

The Degree relates to the story of Noah and the Deluge from the Genesis 6-9.