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Howard Dickman at 13:44, May 23, 2014

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Howard Dickman: /* Excalibur crew anecdotes about the ship */

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‎Excalibur crew anecdotes about the ship

Howard Dickman: /* Excalibur crew anecdotes about the ship */

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‎Excalibur crew anecdotes about the ship

Howard Dickman: /* Excalibur's Rehabilitation Project Force (RPF) */

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‎Excalibur's Rehabilitation Project Force (RPF)

Howard Dickman at 15:46, December 22, 2013

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Howard Dickman: /* Excalibur crew anecdotes about the ship */

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‎Excalibur crew anecdotes about the ship

Howard Dickman at 15:28, December 22, 2013

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Howard Dickman: /* Captain's of the Excalibur */

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 ====Excalibur crew anecdotes about the ship====
 Quotes from Paul Katz;
-*''HA! Thanks for the promotion Brian., but no, I wasn't Captain. The ship went from Bob Young to Alan Long to Dave Murphy to Jessup to Scotty to Riggs. I sailed with all six. Per Riggs the old girl was sold and as the last SO Master he delivered her to the East Coast.  The ship and crew fared best under Alan Long and we had great times. Paul and Kenda Ingraham, Bob and Tina Rosenstein, Bruce Lowdermilk, Pat Hunter, Yvonne Gillingham Press and Husband Gary, Ken and Karen Ostrov, Urban Roman, and, and, and. We all really liked one another. Things started going downhill fast when offloaded Apollo crew started showing up at the top of the Excalibur org board. -pk<ref name="Katz1">http://www.forum.exscn.net/showthread.php?34353-The-RPF-on-the-Sea-Org-ship-quot-Excalibur-quot</ref>''
+*''"HA! Thanks for the promotion Brian., but no, I wasn't Captain. The ship went from Bob Young to Alan Long to Dave Murphy to Jessup to Scotty to Riggs. I sailed with all six. Per Riggs the old girl was sold and as the last SO Master he delivered her to the East Coast.  The ship and crew fared best under Alan Long and we had great times. Paul and Kenda Ingraham, Bob and Tina Rosenstein, Bruce Lowdermilk, Pat Hunter, Yvonne Gillingham Press and Husband Gary, Ken and Karen Ostrov, Urban Roman, and, and, and. We all really liked one another. Things started going downhill fast when offloaded Apollo crew started showing up at the top of the Excalibur org board." -pk<ref name="Katz1">http://www.forum.exscn.net/showthread.php?34353-The-RPF-on-the-Sea-Org-ship-quot-Excalibur-quot</ref>''
 [[File:25f62pv.jpg|left|thumb|The Excalibur in San Francisco, May 1972.]]
 *''"The ship will be in port for around 3 weeks for small repairs". Oh, the missing facts! The altered importance!  What the SFO org mag editor chose to delete from the story is this: The pushboat that came up against Excalibur's starboard side (side facing away from the photographer) screamed in just a wee bit fast and caved in the side plating and broke a weld below the waterline. The call came over the onboard pa system "Damage Control party to the engine room!" That meant me and I took off running.  When I arrived Gordo (Sexton? engineer from Oz or NZ) was holding a rag against the bulkhead. He looked at me and kind of smiled, removed the rag and a stream of water about as thick as your wrist squirted onto the deckplates. One second later the rest of my damage control team arrived and we slowed the leak to a trickle using Gordo's rag and some wood for bracing. The engineers shifted fuel and water to careen the hole above the water line and welded a plate over it from the outside. Fun."<ref name="Katz2">http://www.forum.exscn.net/showthread.php?34353-The-RPF-on-the-Sea-Org-ship-quot-Excalibur-quot/page6</ref>''

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 *''HA! Thanks for the promotion Brian., but no, I wasn't Captain. The ship went from Bob Young to Alan Long to Dave Murphy to Jessup to Scotty to Riggs. I sailed with all six. Per Riggs the old girl was sold and as the last SO Master he delivered her to the East Coast.  The ship and crew fared best under Alan Long and we had great times. Paul and Kenda Ingraham, Bob and Tina Rosenstein, Bruce Lowdermilk, Pat Hunter, Yvonne Gillingham Press and Husband Gary, Ken and Karen Ostrov, Urban Roman, and, and, and. We all really liked one another. Things started going downhill fast when offloaded Apollo crew started showing up at the top of the Excalibur org board. -pk<ref name="Katz1">http://www.forum.exscn.net/showthread.php?34353-The-RPF-on-the-Sea-Org-ship-quot-Excalibur-quot</ref>''
 [[File:25f62pv.jpg|left|thumb|The Excalibur in San Francisco, May 1972.]]
-*''"The ship will be in port for around 3 weeks for small repairs". Oh, the missing facts! The altered importance!  What the SFO org mag editor chose to delete from the story is this: The pushboat that came up against Excalibur's starboard side (side facing away from the photographer) screamed in just a wee bit fast and caved in the side plating and broke a weld below the waterline. The call came over the onboard pa system "Damage Control party to the engine room!" That meant me and I took off running.  When I arrived Gordo (Sexton? engineer from Oz or NZ) was holding a rag against the bulkhead. He looked at me and kind of smiled, removed the rag and a stream of water about as thick as your wrist squirted onto the deckplates. One second later the rest of my damage control team arrived and we slowed the leak to a trickle using Gordo's rag and some wood for bracing. The engineers shifted fuel and water to careen the hole above the water line and welded a plate over it from the outside. Fun.<ref name="Katz2">http://www.forum.exscn.net/showthread.php?34353-The-RPF-on-the-Sea-Org-ship-quot-Excalibur-quot/page6</ref>''
+*''"The ship will be in port for around 3 weeks for small repairs". Oh, the missing facts! The altered importance!  What the SFO org mag editor chose to delete from the story is this: The pushboat that came up against Excalibur's starboard side (side facing away from the photographer) screamed in just a wee bit fast and caved in the side plating and broke a weld below the waterline. The call came over the onboard pa system "Damage Control party to the engine room!" That meant me and I took off running.  When I arrived Gordo (Sexton? engineer from Oz or NZ) was holding a rag against the bulkhead. He looked at me and kind of smiled, removed the rag and a stream of water about as thick as your wrist squirted onto the deckplates. One second later the rest of my damage control team arrived and we slowed the leak to a trickle using Gordo's rag and some wood for bracing. The engineers shifted fuel and water to careen the hole above the water line and welded a plate over it from the outside. Fun."<ref name="Katz2">http://www.forum.exscn.net/showthread.php?34353-The-RPF-on-the-Sea-Org-ship-quot-Excalibur-quot/page6</ref>''
-*''"OK, An Allen Long story...Excalibur visited the Channel islands weekends early 70's. Don't remember which uninhabited isle it was, but 3 or 4 crew rowed ashore in the dinghy and left it beached while hiking inland. A couple of hours passed and we heard the ship's whistle. We were wanted back aboard. Reached the beach maybe 45 min to an hour later. the dinghy was gone and Excalibur was under way, slowly steaming past. The ship's motor boat was laying to, close to the beach. It was made clear we were to swim out to it. We were hauled aboard like halibut, then back to the ship, boat brought aboard, ship under way back to LA. I don't recall if Capt. Long said anything about this to me, but he didn't have to. Old OT VII EP: Ability to Project Intention (if I disremember correctly). -pk<ref name+"Katz3">https://www.facebook.com/</ref>''
+*''"OK, An Allen Long story...Excalibur visited the Channel islands weekends early 70's. Don't remember which uninhabited isle it was, but 3 or 4 crew rowed ashore in the dinghy and left it beached while hiking inland. A couple of hours passed and we heard the ship's whistle. We were wanted back aboard. Reached the beach maybe 45 min to an hour later. the dinghy was gone and Excalibur was under way, slowly steaming past. The ship's motor boat was laying to, close to the beach. It was made clear we were to swim out to it. We were hauled aboard like halibut, then back to the ship, boat brought aboard, ship under way back to LA. I don't recall if Capt. Long said anything about this to me, but he didn't have to. Old OT VII EP: Ability to Project Intention (if I disremember correctly)." -pk<ref name+"Katz3">https://www.facebook.com/</ref>''
 ===Excalibur's Deck Project Force (DPF)===

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 [[File:25f62pv.jpg|left|thumb|The Excalibur in San Francisco, May 1972.]]
 *''"The ship will be in port for around 3 weeks for small repairs". Oh, the missing facts! The altered importance!  What the SFO org mag editor chose to delete from the story is this: The pushboat that came up against Excalibur's starboard side (side facing away from the photographer) screamed in just a wee bit fast and caved in the side plating and broke a weld below the waterline. The call came over the onboard pa system "Damage Control party to the engine room!" That meant me and I took off running.  When I arrived Gordo (Sexton? engineer from Oz or NZ) was holding a rag against the bulkhead. He looked at me and kind of smiled, removed the rag and a stream of water about as thick as your wrist squirted onto the deckplates. One second later the rest of my damage control team arrived and we slowed the leak to a trickle using Gordo's rag and some wood for bracing. The engineers shifted fuel and water to careen the hole above the water line and welded a plate over it from the outside. Fun.<ref name="Katz2">http://www.forum.exscn.net/showthread.php?34353-The-RPF-on-the-Sea-Org-ship-quot-Excalibur-quot/page6</ref>''
 ===Excalibur's Deck Project Force (DPF)===

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 *''RPF WEST COAST USA 1974/75 WAS ACTUALLY and factually a Rehabilitation Project Force. What it was on the Apollo, or FOLOEUS, couldn't tell you, wasn't there.  I for one, as a crew member of the Excalibur was actually a bit jealous of the RPF, 5 hours per day study and/or auditing??? Fuck me running!! To the best of my knowledge the auditing was "by the book" repair actions, list correction, serious word clearing. (help me here Howard if I've missed anything) and a general clean-up of any previous not quite right action. HELL even the MEST work produced an EP, its called "being in present time". To the best of my knowledge, a soapy cloth in ones' hand, touching a solid surface was very effective CCH processing.  Now, when where why and HOW it morphed into the Recrimination Prosecutorial Farce I don't know, I simply thank my lucky stars I never experienced it. But yes boys & girls, in the beginning the RPF actually produced real products, not the broken terriorised "things" we have today. So yeah, "wins" on the RPF, not as much of an out-reality as it might seem.   C-Ya DC<ref name="Don1">http://www.forum.exscn.net/showthread.php?25406-Howard-Dickman-ex-staff-San-Diego-Org-checking-in/page3</ref>''
-Here is a personal story about the RPF - [http://freezone-tech.info/blog/2011/01/30/my-days-on-the-excalibur-rpf/ '''My Days on the Excalibur RPF''']
+Here is a personal story about the RPF - [http://scientolipedia.org/info/The_Excalibur%27s_Rehabilitation_Project_Force_(RPF) '''The Excalibur's RPF''']
 Pictured below is an actual copy of an RPF graduation certificate, dated February 13, 1975.

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 Quotes from Paul Katz;
 *''HA! Thanks for the promotion Brian., but no, I wasn't Captain. The ship went from Bob Young to Alan Long to Dave Murphy to Jessup to Scotty to Riggs. I sailed with all six. Per Riggs the old girl was sold and as the last SO Master he delivered her to the East Coast.  The ship and crew fared best under Alan Long and we had great times. Paul and Kenda Ingraham, Bob and Tina Rosenstein, Bruce Lowdermilk, Pat Hunter, Yvonne Gillingham Press and Husband Gary, Ken and Karen Ostrov, Urban Roman, and, and, and. We all really liked one another. Things started going downhill fast when offloaded Apollo crew started showing up at the top of the Excalibur org board. -pk<ref name="Katz1">http://www.forum.exscn.net/showthread.php?34353-The-RPF-on-the-Sea-Org-ship-quot-Excalibur-quot</ref>''
-[[File:25f62pv.jpg|left|thumb|The Excalibur in San Francisco, 1972.]]
+[[File:25f62pv.jpg|left|thumb|The Excalibur in San Francisco, May 1972.]]
 *''"The ship will be in port for around 3 weeks for small repairs". Oh, the missing facts! The altered importance!  What the SFO org mag editor chose to delete from the story is this: The pushboat that came up against Excalibur's starboard side (side facing away from the photographer) screamed in just a wee bit fast and caved in the side plating and broke a weld below the waterline. The call came over the onboard pa system "Damage Control party to the engine room!" That meant me and I took off running.  When I arrived Gordo (Sexton? engineer from Oz or NZ) was holding a rag against the bulkhead. He looked at me and kind of smiled, removed the rag and a stream of water about as thick as your wrist squirted onto the deckplates. One second later the rest of my damage control team arrived and we slowed the leak to a trickle using Gordo's rag and some wood for bracing. The engineers shifted fuel and water to careen the hole above the water line and welded a plate over it from the outside. Fun.<ref name="Katz2">http://www.forum.exscn.net/showthread.php?34353-The-RPF-on-the-Sea-Org-ship-quot-Excalibur-quot/page6</ref>''

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 ==  Events of the Excalibur  ==
 *February 9, 1973 the Excalibur ported in San Diego for the grand opening of the Church of Scientology of San Diego.
 *May of 1974 the Excalibur ported in San Francisco for a couple of weeks.
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 |Bob Wakefield<ref name="5X" />
 |Bill Yaude<ref name="5X" />
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 *''Compared to my Flagship, the Excalibur, it was a veritable garbage scow when I arrived at Flag to assist then Director of Maritime Operations, Commander Robert F. Young, in getting the Apollo cleaned up, ship-shape (and unknown to me, ready for sale on arrival in the U.S.)<ref name="Make1">http://www.lermanet2.com/exit/scottmayer.htm</ref>.''
-Riggs
+Riggs Eckelberry
 ==== <center>Picture Gallery - Captain's of the Excalibur</center> ====

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 Alan Long
 '''Amos Jessup.'''  Amos Jessup was born in 1945, the son of a senior editor at Life magazine.  In 1966, while a philosophy major studying in England, he had gone to Saint Hill to try and get his brother out of Scientology. He instead became involved in the subject himself.  In June, 1967, Amos arrived in Las Palmas as part of the Sea Project.  In October, 1967, he signed on as one of the original members of the newly created Sea Org.   During the early days of the Sea Org, Amos and Yvonne Gillham did two survey missions together, one to Corsica and one in Marseilles.  Amos was promoted "by merit" to Lt. Commander (RA) by LRH Flag Order 2342 on the 24th Jan 1970.  He was one of the students on the original Expanded Dianetics Course.  In the spring of 1973 he became captain of the Excalibur, a position he held until the fall of 1973.  He was part of the Excalibur’s RPF during 1974 and early 1975, after which he became the Commanding Officer of the Toronto Org, and later, a research auditor for the New Vitality project and a C/S at the Clearwater base.  He returned to civilian life in 1979, and became an engineer and a writer.
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 *''When I ran the Excal in San Pedro, from April 73 on, we would routinely take a boatload of staff, SO prospects and Scientologists from LA out on an evening cruise around LA Harbor, past the Queen Mary (if I recall correctly) which was a dockside restaurant, and then back to dock.  Sometimes we'd have a music group perform on the fantail.  It was a sort of floating party for a couple of hours, with the purpose of promoting SO recruitment.  Before me, I believe Alan Long and Bob Young did similar excursions.  We had been constrained not to leave San Pedro/Long Beach harbor by the Coast Guard, who thought we were under spec for carrying all those passengers safely.  But it is a big harbor so we tootled around in it giving people a taste of the floating life.''
 '''Scott Mayer.'''  Scott Mayer was born July 25, 1943, in Chicago, Illinois. He served in the U.S Navy during the Vietnam war.  In the late 60's he joined Scientology and rose to the brevet rank of Captain in the Sea Org.  During 1973 and 1974 he was Fleet Captain over the three Sea Org ships that made up the U.S. Pacific flotilla.  He left Scientology in 1976 and passed away October 6, 2005.
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 *''Compared to my Flagship, the Excalibur, it was a veritable garbage scow when I arrived at Flag to assist then Director of Maritime Operations, Commander Robert F. Young, in getting the Apollo cleaned up, ship-shape (and unknown to me, ready for sale on arrival in the U.S.)<ref name="Make1">http://www.lermanet2.com/exit/scottmayer.htm</ref>.''
 ==== <center>Picture Gallery - Captain's of the Excalibur</center> ====

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 This page links to the following file;
 *'''[http://scientolipedia.org/info/Ships_of_the_Sea_Organization,_1967_to_1975 Ships of the Sea Organization, 1967 to 1975]'''
-*'''[http://scientolipedia.org/info/The_Excalibur%27s_Rehabilitation_Project_Force_(RPF)]'''
+*'''[http://scientolipedia.org/info/The_Excalibur%27s_Rehabilitation_Project_Force_(RPF) An Excalibur's RPF story]'''
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