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Message: [QUOTE="Shelley Dziedzic, post: 313099, member: 144586"] Can't compete with you GUYS but I did spend a cold night in December on a DE 1040 class in Alephsis Greece on alert during the Arab-Israeli crisis in 1971. After escorting two sappy and slightly drunken J. O's back to the ship, the taxi left the quay with me standing on it- the ExO offered his stateroom for the night- my husband got a REAL surprise that night, I got a standing ovation from the wardroom next day (BLUSH BLUSH) and nine months later a daughter-whom we nearly named Athena -was born. As far as liners- it was my great thrill to take a cruise on the old Galileo when she was with Chandris- she made a first call at New London CT before somebody realized the channel was too shallow for her draft-so late at night we were finally ferried by LIFEBOATS out to the ship under wild skies and a big swell- the ship's lights were all ablaze and we had to enter through a service gangway of ropes low on the starboard side- it was WILD. She was/is a beautiful ship with a sharp clipper bow and counter stern-beautiful profile. I made two cruises on QE2- no words to describe that- and my most memorable cruise on the Island Breeze- a great old tub that still looks like a ship- she's sold again I hear. Memorable because it brought me at last to Titanic- spent many nights sitting alone in the dark on the bow under the stars at 2 a.m.-watching the night bridge, the lonely helmsman, and taking in the unbelievable bowl of stars-it was dead calm and the ocean like black ink. Nothing like the creak of decks and sheets, the swish of the bow cutting through the waves and the phosphorescent wake ribboning out behind-the best part was getting rocked to sleep in my rack at night with the sounds of the ship all around. [/QUOTE]

Verification: In which year did the Titanic sail?