[Ansteorra] SCA at sea with US Navy

[Stefan li Rous]

On Thursday, January 15, 2004, at 01:36 PM, Ciard49 at aol.com wrote:
> When was that?  My Brother was a Marine on the shakedown cruise of the
> Nimitz.
>
> I was very strongly informed that Navy carriers do not have "maiden 
> voyages".
>
> Ciard
Here are a pair of messages from the SCA-Stories3-msg file in the 
Florilegium:
Stefan

> Subject: Re: True SCA Story?
> Date: Thu, 11 Feb 1999 14:27:53 -0500
> From: "E. T. Smith" <etsmith at compuzone.net>
> To: Brenna <sunnie at exis.net>
> CC: SCAVard at aol.com, atlantia <atlantia at atlantia.sca.org>
>
> >Yes, but aren't urban legends fun.  What about the one where the 
> Russians were
> >sending spy planes over to get pics of the manuevers on one of our 
> aircraft
> >carriers.  One of the officers ordered all the SCAdians onboard to 
> muster
> >ondeck with all the heraldry and equipment they had with them and 
> hold fighter
> >practice.
> >The story goes that they had a great deal of fun listening to the 
> conversations
> >the Russians had trying to figure what in the heck the Navy was 
> training for
> >this time.
>
>      It's not often that anyone can lend credence to an urban legend. 
> In this case, the aircraft carrier was USS Nimitz (CV-68), the officer 
> was Captain Ed Clexton, USN who was then commanding officer, and the 
> SCA group was a Port the name of which I cannot recall. Yea, verily. 
> Captain Clexton had a lot of fighter pilot moxie and really enjoyed 
> seeing the heavy weapon fighters practicing on the hangar deck.
>
>      The Russian Long Range Army (strategic bombers) Bear/Badger 
> pilots routinely conducted their graduation training exercise from the 
> Murmansk/Kola Gulf area by reconnoitering a U.S. Navy battle group 
> enroute to or from the
> Mediterranean. Of course, the Navy's task was to either elude 
> identification or rendezvous with the bombers and escort them while 
> they were in the vicinity of the battle group. (FYI, I did this on 
> many occasions and usually found the bomber crews had the latest issue 
> of Playboy to hold up to their cockpit window.)
>
>      On the occasion in question, Captain Clexton did call for the SCA 
> fighters to muster on the flight deck in armor and hold fighter 
> practice. While I cannot
> say NSTIW, I did hear the story from the horse's mouth....Captain 
> Clexton.
>
> Best wishes to all from a rather ancient mariner.
> Thomas Smyth of Ayre
>
>
> Subject: Re: True SCA Story?
> Date: Thu, 11 Feb 1999 15:17:41 EST
> From: JBRMM266 at aol.com
> To: etsmith at compuzone.net, sunnie at exis.net
> CC: SCAVard at aol.com, atlantia at atlantia.sca.org
>
> In a message dated 99-02-11 14:29:59 EST, etsmith at compuzone.net writes:
>
> << It's not often that anyone can lend credence to an urban legend. In 
> this case, the aircraft carrier was USS Nimitz (CV-68), the officer 
> was Captain Ed Clexton, USN who was then ommanding officer, and the 
> SCA group was a Port
> the name of which I cannot recall.>>
>
> Its name was Currach Mór, which means "Big Boat".  As the poursuivant 
> of
> Marinus, from which they then sailed, I assisted them with the design 
> of
> their Arms.
>
> ~Donal Mac Ruiseart
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THLord Stefan li Rous    Barony of Bryn Gwlad    Kingdom of Ansteorra
    Mark S. Harris           Austin, Texas          
StefanliRous at austin.rr.com
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