From: slorden@rogers.com   
      
   Tell us more fascinating tales, please!   
      
   hooky wrote:   
   >   
   > We were sailing with the US 7th fleet and it was just after we won the   
   > Canada/Russia series. We were part of the outer screen of destroyers on   
   > the starboard side of the 7th in the south pacific. We were (as usual)   
   > being shadowed by some Russian units. As it turned out we were actually   
   > the nearest ship to a Russian cruiser.   
   > Her skipper was a very smart man. He sent over a 'hormone b' to HMCS   
   > Terra Nova, I came out of the citadel on the port side having come off   
   > watch in the radio shack. The hormone sat off our starboard side and   
   > one of our bosun's waved her in slowly. She sat over our mortar well   
   > and lowered a basket. Our people unhooked it and ran it into the   
   > wardroom right past me, as the hormone stood off and waited.   
   > After a while a steward came out with the basket again although this   
   > time it had a carton of players, a bottle or two of Canadian whiskey a   
   > note(reply) etc.It turned out that the basket originally had some   
   > salt,bread, vodka, russian smokes and a note from the Cruiser captain   
   > congratulating us on winning the series.The hormone took the basket and   
   > took off back to the cruiser.   
   > Well the yanks went NUTS!!!!! I went back into the CCR and a row of   
   > tactical mod 28 teleprinters were rattling away. The uhf and vhf nets   
   > were all alive with .....please explains!   
   > A mate called me out onto the quarterdeck aft of the asroc launcher and   
   > said look at that! There were 3 US sea kings line abreast screaming   
   > towards us!   
   > It took the skipper sometime to unruffle the yanks and a private joke   
   > was initiated by the Russians,joined in by Canadians (in full knowledge   
   > of its effect i am certain), designed to rattle our southern   
   > neighbours...a good time was had by almost all ! hooky   
   > I have a bunch more if anyone is interested!   
      
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