From: Gerry Armstrong <gerry@gerryarmstrong.org>
Newsgroups: alt.religion.scientology
Subject: Re: how many people on Apollo? Freewinds?
Date: Fri, 16 Jul 2004 09:14:05 -0700
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On Wed, 14 Jul 2004 10:14:44 +0200, Ralph Hilton <ralph@cmeter.org>
wrote:
>Kristi Wachter <humanrights@racerrecords.com> wrote on 8 Jul 2004
21:59:11 -0400 in msg
><40edfbef$1@news2.lightlink.com>, :
>
>>Can someone in the know tell me how many people were typically on the
>>Apollo? How many crew? How many non-crew?
>>
>>How about the Freewinds - how many crew? How many non-crew?
>
>The Apollo had around 350 crew. Very little public auditing was done.
>The number of non crew varied quite a bit - they were almost all trainees
for other orgs
>and would tend to come for specific training at the same time such as the
Class 8 course,
>ESTO course etc. I have little data on the Freewinds.
The "Apollo," of course, started off with a much smaller complement
than it had when Ralph and I were on board.
I maintained the "crew list," the ship's articles, seamen's books,
passports and related documents throughout the 1972-74 period, during
which time the number of Scientologists on board was typically a
little over 400, and maxxed at 440.
In order to maintain our "yacht status" so as to get around SOLAS
Convention regulations for passenger vessels (which the Apollo legally
was) we had all "passengers" sign the articles as "crew."
http://www.imo.org/Conventions/contents.asp?topic_id=257&doc_id=647
All the public students coming to the ship for courses, all the rich
Scientologists coming for "Flag auditing," and anyone else on board
for any reason signed the articles and were included on the crew list.
It was fraud, naturally, but everyone on board was "crew."
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