Graeme McDonald noticed the powerful light of USS Harry H Truman heading towards him. With his vast experience at the age of 65, only a month left for his retirement tuned up his radio to broadcast, announced sternly in his thick Scotish accent, “You are advised to change your course immediately, you are heading towards me.
Admiral Gordon Benjamin Beachcroft of the USS H Truman, the biggest battleship of the US navy was not renouned for taking Orders from any body, replied in the most hubristic tone “ You better change your course, my ship will crush you”
McDonald was least interested in submitting to anybody “Change your course or you will be in imminent danger”
Beachcroft was not used to such indignant response “Pressed the red button to trigger the ear piercing siren “change your course now you idiot. You don’t know who I am; This is USS Harry H Truman”
McDonald “Sorry Sir, I am the Sumburgh Lighthouse in Shetland Island.
