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Correct. Queen Victoria commissioned three desks and a writing table be made from the Resolutes timbers. One was presented to President Hayes, and was first brought to the Oval office by JFK. Johnson, Nixon and Ford did not use it, but Carter brought it back. Reagan used it, Clinton, W. and Obama have used it. So I was a little off in my USN clue- Nixon, Ford and H.W. did not count.
The other two desks are in the New Bedford Whaling Museum and Windsor Castle. The writing desk is in the Royal Navy Collection.
Anyone who cares to can go next.
Modeling is an excuse to buy books.
HMS Resolute, trapped in the ice while searching for the Northwest Passage in the early 1850s. 3 desks were commissioned by Queen Victoria and one was presented to President Rutherford B. Hayes in 1880.
I apologize, but I have to pass on the next question, but I remember having read about this expedition a short while ago and didn't want it to go unanswered.
Still stumped? One is very famous, and five of it's users in my lifetime served in the Navy.
GMorrison Reused in somewhat new form, she "exists" now in a modified state in four separate locations.
Reused in somewhat new form, she "exists" now in a modified state in four separate locations.
OK this ship was found wrecked, was salvaged and bits and pieces ended up in four separate locations. Repurposed as desks.
Correct! Give that man a cigar!
The Revenue Cutter Harriet Lane.
What vessel fired the first naval shot of the American Civil War?
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The "Dundee Star", a Scottish bark, was abandoned by its crew in a gale off Midway Island, and drifted completely around the world in 4 years and finally piled up in 1891 on Midway Island. This was the very spot from which she started her phantom voyage.
Anyone can go next...
I made the question a bit vague so as to not make it TOO easy to google. I'll toss in a hint or two if ya'll want.
Oh I like a good ghost story. This one has me stumped though on the circumnavigation. Hmmm...
Abandoned by its crew in a gale off an Island, this unmanned vessel circumnavigated the world. After several years it appeared back at the island where the phantom voyage originated.
(The voyage ended back at the point where it originally ran aground.)
Name the vessel, Island and year(s) adrift.
correct as that is my ancestor who did that in 1854.
I am going to say Commodore Matthew Perry (US). However, that claim has now come into question.
who & what country opened japan to the world in the 1800's?
Excellent! I thought I was familiar with "naval actions" during the Civil War but this was a pleasent surprise when I read about it. (the same type of surprise when I found out it snows in Hawaii). I'm not sure why it's not a more well known incident, my books on naval history never mention it. The entire story would make a great movie in the style of "Captain and Commander" or something similar.
japan. it appears a Japanese prince tried to shut down foreign access to the Shimonoseki Straits, the strait between the main island of Honshu, & the smaller island of Kyushu to the south, in Sept. of 1864. The USS Wyoming made a run through the straits, sinking several Japanese ships and shelling the gun positions, but received several hits itself. The Japanese continued to control the straits, leading to a joint European effort to gain control, in which the US participated in a minor fashion by landing some troops & shelling the locations again.
During the American Civil War, the US Navy fought a naval engagement with a foreign power. Can you name that foreign power?
correct
Americus and Altair.
The loss of fourteen men and two crabbing vessels in the Bering Sea in 1983 was the worst disaster in the history of U. S. commercial fishing. What were the names of the two sister ships that were lost in that tragic disaster?
Echo got it correctly.
This unfortunate is the victim of the old Mail Buoy Watch prank. Though some sailors who are savvy and have otherwise less than pleasant work, might take this as an opportunity to goof off and enjoy the sea for a while.
I'm from the government and I'm here to help.
His duty is to locate and recover the mail buoy .
No, this person is doing something else.
Could it be a fog watch ? tankerbuilder
Boy-Oh-Boy! Did I ever drop the ball?!
Sorry, sorry everyone....
Had a major computer crisis that get resolved this morning I Thanks for waiting for me, I wouldn't have.
Anyway, to get back to the quiz;
If you were to sashay up to the fo'csl of a US Navy ship while at sea, and spotted a young sailor in full foul weather gear (and I didn't specify what the weather conditions are, either), with a sound powered phone around his neck and over his ears, peering through binoculars while scanning the horizon, and a boat hook at the ready. What would you say his duty was?
This is a fast toss up to get this floundering quiz back in gear.
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Thats the one. Monterey suffered a catastrophic av gas fire during the storm, but Jerry was involved in the heroic fire fighting effort that saved her.
Your turn, Ranger Boy.
Gerald R. Ford in USS Monterey.
No, he was commissioned in 1946.
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