Identify This!!! 1.0

Titanic. 

Absolutely correct Jim, you're next!

This drawing was made by a man who traveled with this ship's fleet for several months.

The ship shown was well built, long lived and popular.   Its name involves good fortune.  

Good call but not the ship!  Good luck.  

Pelican/Golden Hind?

George, thats right.  Bonaventure roughly means "good luck."   

 The floor is yours.  

Here's a fairly straightforward one for you men of steel.

She was one on her own, fought in three battles, but was she as good as she looked?

Spot on Searat, which is more than you can say for Tiger. In the Battle of the Dogger Bank she managed only one hit out of 255 shots. Mind you, even if she couldn't dish it out she could take it, surviving (15) hits by 11" shells at Jutland.

You're up!

Right!  A couple years ago, I was delivering a yacht to Duxbury, Massachusetts on a foggy day.  As I was enterin the harbor, what should come looming out of the mist, but apparently the Flying Dutchman himself!!!  However, as the ship came closer, I could see the American flag to great relief.... What ship is this?  Here is a hint, it is an excellent reproduction of a ship that delivered colonists to America, but from where did she come, and where did she arrive?

Nice sight to see come out of the fog . . the Kalmar Nyckel.

All right, here goes . . .

This ship served its entire career next to the later home of the Bird Man. 

Not being able to see (or hit) her is the point of the design.  There is a Swedish connection somewhere.

Not the ship - but a very good guess. 

This ship was built in New Jersey in 1863, and one of a class of ten ships designed by a Swede. The ship class is named for a river, town and county in New Jersey. She is the only ship in her class not named for an eastern location.

USS Camanche.  Google knows all!

Fred

Thats right, its the USS Camanche, a Passaic class monitor designed by John Ericsson.  The floor is yours.

OK, time for an easier one.

Name the liner, but for extra credit, there is a very famous ship in the picture, the small vessel in front of the liner. I think if it was a better picture it would be instantly recognizable to any TV viewer.

Fred

I think the liner is S.S. Independence but I have no idea what the small vessel is.

Bryano1 has the right answer for the liner, so you have the floor.

Mechtech, good guess on the USS Pueblo, but not quite. They are similar sized ships with military origins.

The small ship is the Jacques Cousteau's Calypso. She was a converted minesweeper.

Take it away Bryan..

Fred

Thank you Fred!

New picture. Please describe the scene. What year is it, where is it, what was the occasion and who were involved? You don't have to know the name of the ship in the middle, but bonus-points of you do!