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[James Crouchet]

I had understood that it was a Carrier and one of it's support ships.

Savian


On 22 Feb 1995, Aodhan Ite an Fhithich wrote:

> 
> Dia duit!
> 
>  [Replying to a message of Vicki Self  to All]
> 
>  VS>  I believe the name of the ship was the U.S.S.Nimitz and it was called 
>  VS> the Shire of the Forgotten Seas, or maybe it was the Forgotton Isle.
> 
> My recollection is also that it was the Nimitz (an aircraft carrier), but that
> it was called the Shire of Curragh Mor (Gaelic for "big boat" <g>).
> 
> Fighter practices were held out on the flight deck.  Apocrypha has it that
> this caused quite a bit of consternation for on-shore observers during the
> Iranian Hostage Crisis.
> 
> At one time, there was another ship (also a carrier, i think), with a shire on
> board, but its name escapes me.
> 
> (Now, when Alpha finally gets built and manned and Loch Soilleir infiltrates
> the astronaut corps, are we gonna refer to Alpha as a Canton or what?? <vbg>).
> 
> Feicfidh me' ari's thu',
> 
> Aodhan
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