Ship Trivia Quiz

USS Maury (DD 100 & DD 401)

Matthew Fontaine Maury held the Physics chair at VMI after the Civil War, taeaching there until he died in 1873.

Rick 

After Morrison and Mahan, I think the third might be Arleigh Burke (co-founder of the Center for Strategic and International Studies)

That would be:

Alfred Thayer Mahan

I think he has had multiple ships named after him.

I've been following this thread because I love Naval history. I can venture one guess here, and possibly two.

My certain guess is the USS Samuel Eliot Morrison. Great historian, great writer.

My second guess, although noit certain, is USS Oliver Hazard Perry. although I think that may not be correct. 

The third one, I have no clue. 

Well....I guess there's more room for "grey areas" in the question than I thought.  Neither of those people is among the three I had in mind.  If Churchill ever actually taught any history classes I'm not aware of it (though he certainly deserves the label "historian," in view of the wonderful books he wrote.)  I read Thomas Buell's biography of Admiral King a long time ago; my recollection is that he went directly from Annapolis into active duty, and stayed in the Navy till his retirement.  If he spent some time teaching college it's news to me - and if so, I guess he does belong on the list.  (Come to think of it - maybe he did a tour as an instructor at the Naval War College.  But was he teaching history?)

But you're missing the obvious ones, Subfixer.  Hints:  Think of what was probably the most influential work about naval history ever written, and think of one of the most honored - and prolific - American historians of our own time.  (My academic advisor - speaking in about 1975 -  called him "the greatest living historian."  And he spent many years on the faculty of an extremely well-known university.)

I've got one, I would say that whoever can get the final one(s) wins this round.

USS King DDG-41, named after Fleet Admiral Ernest J. King. And, although I'm not quite sure if he actually taught any classes, Winston Churchill was well known as an historian and had some kind of relationship with Oxford University. So, the USS Winston S. Churchill, DDG-81 (the only US ship named after a foreigner [he was the first Honorary United States Citizen]) might qualify. But wait, Professor Tilley asked "who", not "what", so if I was taking one of his exams I would have got no credit at all for those answers. Therefore, my revised answer will be Ernest J. King and Winston Churchill, with King as my certain answer.

Oops.  Having just done a little more web research, I want to rephrase the question slightly.  (I hope that's not against the rules.) 

Name three college-level history teachers who've had U.S. warships named after them.

Another clue: Movie and TV.

Bonus clue: US Army

Not too trivial, but after all, this is a trivia quiz. Here is a question that is not purely "Yank" in content:

What New Zealand ship was reversed lend-leased to the US Navy and where is it now?

That's it.  Trivial, wasn't it?

 Your turn.

Sorry folks, that wasn't supposed to be that difficult.  And it certainly wasn't a Yank question.

 The answer I expected to hear was HMS Redoubt, who towed the lighter that SubLT Culley flew his Sopwith Camel from on August 11, 1918.  Culley took 30 minutes to climb up to the required altitude to reach the Zeppelin L53 that had been shadowing the cruisers and destroyers in the North Sea, and he then shot it down. http://www.ww2aircraft.net/forum/album/showphoto.php?photo=14598 

Camels were flown from lighters towed by destroyers earlier without achieving kills.  The earliest I have found is June 11, 1918, using a Felixstowe F2A flying boat on the lighter, towed behind HMS Teazer.

New question, and back to Yank Surface warfare specialty material (apologies to Mr. Death):

 On USS New Jersey's Viet Nam commission (kind of a British term, but I refer to her period of activity during the Viet Nam war), why were the forward 40mm gum tubs painted blue inside?

Rick 

HMS Furious

On 19 July 1918, she launched a historic air strike that destroyed two enemy airships and their support facilities at Tondern, in northern Germany

The first victim was a German airship.

Answer posted tomorrow. 

the sound of crickets is deafening...

Must be either too far off the wall,  or I've upset people.  This is not a Yank question.

followup to my previous:

 What was the first destroyer to operate a fixed wing aircraft in a combat environment?  (and when?)