White Star

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Founded: 1998 Status: Active
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The White Star is a Nautical Themed household in Caid that represents a merchanteer ship and its associations. The household is divided into two parts The Ship and The Villa.

Our Villa, residing in Cadiz, Spain serves as the port for the Good Ship White Star and a refuge for those seeking a life of leisure and art. The 'official' time line of the household sets us in the early 1500's, where we stand as defenders against persecution and an 'underground railroad' to help those who suffer under the yoke of the Spanish Inquisition.

The household is comprised of individuals who thrive on persona-play and enjoy The Game of the SCA as well as each others company and the activities which we do.

The White Star was formed in 1998, in (the, then Prinicipality of) Northshield, when Dianora Lizavetta di Vittori di Cellini granted Lot Ramirez the rank of Captain and the White Star as an advance on the dowry of her ward, Caterina di Cellini. The household of the White Star maintains its connections as a part of the di Cellini housholds, which span more than 3 kingdoms.

The Ship

The Crew of The Good Ship White Star

Captain

• Don Lot Ramirez

Officers

• Lord Quintin Lawless - First Mate
• Rev Mordechai ben Avraham - Navigator
• THLady Mariam Albarran - Boatswain
• Laird Jaime Muir - Quartermaster
• Signore Marcos de la Cruz - Master of the Guns

Able Sailors

• Pelyon Chickensbane - Ship's Cook
• Laird Erasmus MacBain (aka Big Dickey Kingswood of Longtown) - Carpenter's Mate
• Lord Dylan Kairdiff - Rigger's Mate
• Lord Gabriel Archer - Artillerist
• Lord Arye ben Ezra - Boatswain's Mate

Powder Monkeys

• Positions open - Apply within...

Bilge Rats

• Casey the Ax - Deck Rat
• Nathaniel Archer
• Benito di Cellini

The Villa

The Ladies and Artisans who reside in the Villa

Senora de la Casa

• Il Singora Caterina di Cellini

Ladies in Residence

• Dame Eilidh Swann Stralachan
• An Onórach Baitighearna (THL) Ciar inghean uí Mhaoildeirg
• Shifra
• Margraig Ingen Dubgaill (AKA Maggie MacBain)

Resident Artisans

• Maestro Giacomo Cavalli da Treviso - Weapons Master
• Lady Magdalene van den Velde - Household Physic

White Star Marines

White Star Marines is a rapier warband associated with the household which also includes non-household members.

At Estrella 2009, White Star Marines were awarded the Crossed Swords of Caid.

All crewmen are automatically entered in the rolls of the White Star Marines, if they so choose, and are assigned a rank according to their position on the crew. Any non-crew who signs on full time to fight with the unit is accounted the rank of Marine, and may be promoted to a command position of Segreant-Marine. Other Recruits may be pressed into service on a temporary basis.

The following is the rank and roll of the White Star Marines:

• Captain
• Officers

• Segreant-Marines
  • Maestro Giacomo Cavalli da Treviso
  • Lady Magdalene van den Velde
  • Senor Raphael ben Gideon
  • Senor Diego Antonio Vega de Palma

• Able Sailors

• Marines
  • Lord Seamus O'Domhnaill of Devil's Beef Tub
  • Lady Sviatoslava "Svetlana" Akilina Vasil'evskaia zhena Nikolaeva
  • Lord Tristan der English
  • Signiora Mora Ottavia Spadera

• Powder Monkeys
• Pressed Recruits

• The Raz
  • Laird Erasmus MacBain (aka Big Dickey Kingswood of Longtown)

Honors

• Arts and Sciences Pentathlon Team Champion, 03/13/2005
• Potrero War, May 2007 "Blood of Heroes" Champion

More Information

• Official Web Site

The Songs

Group Collaborations

• [Fair Cadiz]

By Don Mateo Montero De Madrid of Northshield

• [The White Star]

By Don Lot Ramirez

• [Privateer]
• [Gull's a Peer]
• [Caidan Marching Song]
• [Heart of Gold]

By Lady Magdalene van den Velde

• [Cask and Crew]
• [A Lover, Not a Fighter]
• [The Lady Behind Every Fighter]
• [Heather's Hound]
• [Upon a Hill]

By Lord Arye ben Ezra

• [Raz in the hold]

By Dame Eilidh Swann

• [Back, As I Remember (The Darachshire Song)]
• [Blessings (The Lyondemere Yule Song)]
• [By A Look And A Glance]
• [Mara's Song]

By Señora Elizaveta Arievna Lebedeva

• [Children of the White Star]
• [O Fair Lyondemere]
• [My Bonny Lad]
• [La Rosa De Caid]