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Posted by surfsup on Wednesday, October 24, 2012 2:52 AM

OK all I could find was the following. HMS Highlander ( Destroyer), survived while the Whaler Shera and the Armed Trawler Daneman both were lost. All 3 collided with what is termed Sea Ice.

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Posted by ddp59 on Thursday, October 18, 2012 11:01 AM

what 3 ships collided with something in ww2 & only 1 survived? what are their names?

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Posted by surfsup on Thursday, October 18, 2012 4:20 AM

You have it. Over to you for the next one.

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Posted by ddp59 on Wednesday, October 17, 2012 10:55 PM

australian modified leander(sydney) class, perth sunk by japanese, sydney sunk by the german raider kormoran & hobart scrapped in japan after the war.

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Posted by surfsup on Wednesday, October 17, 2012 7:40 PM

Chirp.....Chirp.....Chirp.....The Crickets are back.

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Posted by surfsup on Sunday, October 14, 2012 2:48 PM

OK here we go. One Allied Country during WW2 had 3 Sister Ships serving in their Navy. One was sunk by the Japanese, One by the Germans and one survuved the War. What were the names of those Ships...???

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Posted by Duke Maddog on Sunday, October 14, 2012 1:03 PM

Oh man, that is one ugly ship! Condos for cows! Yeah, I don't think I'd want to work on one of those...

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Posted by subfixer on Sunday, October 14, 2012 10:32 AM

Livestock carrier it is, surfsup. Stockmen make up a major part of the crew and water is a main concern. I hate to think how bad one of these ships must smell. I am living in Smithfield, Virginia, home of the famous hams. When a pig truck goes down the road, you don't want to be behind it.

Question is yours, surfsup.

A livestock carrier:

File:Sheep Ship 2.jpg

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Posted by surfsup on Saturday, October 13, 2012 5:36 PM

Could it be a Livestock Carrier. The crew are bascially Wranglers and the Fresh Water is needed to feed the Livestock,,,,,,,Cheers Mark

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Posted by subfixer on Saturday, October 13, 2012 4:12 PM

Nope! This is a type of ship that transports a certain type of cargo, sorry about the vague question.

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Posted by ddp59 on Saturday, October 13, 2012 2:54 PM

steamship & engineer. the land equivalent is stationary engineer that runs a boiler plant.

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Posted by subfixer on Saturday, October 13, 2012 10:14 AM

All righty then.

This class of ship requires a special type of crewman and an abnormally large supply of fresh water. What is this type of ship?

 

I'm not looking for a fishing vessel.

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Posted by Duke Maddog on Saturday, October 13, 2012 8:30 AM

You got it Subfixer, it's all yours.

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Posted by subfixer on Friday, October 12, 2012 10:04 AM

The Mary Celeste was discovered under sail and entirely abandoned.

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Posted by Duke Maddog on Friday, October 12, 2012 8:52 AM

Any guesses so far? I'll let this run a couple days more and then drop a hint.

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Posted by Duke Maddog on Thursday, October 11, 2012 10:18 AM

No, looking for the original ship that was used in Arthur Conan Doyle's story.

Keep trying.

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Posted by Echo139er on Wednesday, October 10, 2012 2:48 PM

SS Mayumba, destroyed by fire.

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Posted by Duke Maddog on Wednesday, October 10, 2012 11:10 AM

Okay, here's one:

This ship was the subject of an Arthur Conan Doyle Sherlock Holmes episode, which was later reported as Fact by the newspapers of the day. Who was she and what had happened?

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Posted by Duke Maddog on Wednesday, October 10, 2012 10:43 AM

Okay, give me time to find something.

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Posted by ddp59 on Tuesday, October 9, 2012 11:15 AM

Duke Maddog, you go as i missed the "guided" part tho i would have had it on the "roma"

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Posted by Duke Maddog on Tuesday, October 9, 2012 9:22 AM

I was actually going to answer that with the Italian battleship Roma since you did mention "guided" bombs, not unguided. Cool. I'll be watching for ddp59's next question. It should be a good one; he always comes up with some quality questions.

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Posted by Echo139er on Monday, October 8, 2012 5:38 PM

Dang it!  I left something out in my question.  I meant to ask for the "FIRST battleship sunk...etc"

My bad.  Your answers are correct, I guess, since my question was mistyped.  I was looking for the Italian ship Roma.

Over, to you ddp59.

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Posted by ddp59 on Monday, October 8, 2012 5:15 PM

Greek battleships Kilkis ( the former Mississippi (BB-23)) and Lemnos (ex-Idaho (BB-24)). Sunk in the basin of the Greek naval base at Salamis after they were hit by German air attacks on 23 April 1941

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Posted by Echo139er on Monday, October 8, 2012 3:11 PM

Another easy one...  but interesting (to me at least)

What battleship was sunk by German unpowered, freefall guided bombs?

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Posted by Echo139er on Monday, October 8, 2012 2:54 PM

Oops. sorry wrong post.  Give me a few to get a new question up.  Stand by to stand by.

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Posted by Felix C. on Monday, October 8, 2012 2:51 PM

Yes. That easy was it? I meant to write submarine launched but was in hurry. Good for you.

Your turn.

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Posted by Echo139er on Monday, October 8, 2012 2:06 PM

On July 6, 1943, the USS STRONG (DD- 467) was torpedoed in the Kula Gulf, by a Japanese destroyer from a range of more than 6 nautical miles.

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Posted by Felix C. on Monday, October 8, 2012 1:17 PM

Ok. My turn? Longest aimed torpedo strike of WW2?

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Posted by F-8fanatic on Friday, October 5, 2012 9:52 PM

Yes, it's the Shangri La, CV-38.  Served in two wars(WWII and Vietnam) but missed the one in between, Korea.  The angled deck is indeed the innovation I was referring to, and no US carrier ever since has ever been built without it.  The connection to the Doolittle raid is its name--when asked where the bombers launched from, FDR grinned and said that they launched from a secret base "at Shangri La".  

The ship became known as "Old Razor Blades" by its crew in the 1960s because every time they turned around, something else broke.  My dad sailed on the Shang for two cruises to the Med--66 and 68--with fighter squadron VF-13.  By then, of course, she was showing her age.  The one WestPac cruise to Vietnam in 1970 was no exception--the ship spent much of its 7 month deployment either in port or in drydock for repairs.  First the refrigeration units went out....then they sheared a shaft.....then they lost steering control while in a turn.  Then they lost a screw while launching aircraft.  There was the constant problem of the evaporators never being able to provide enough drinking water.  And then, there was so much cross-contamination of jet fuel in the fresh water that the smoking lamp was out while the men took showers!  The #3 elevator cable unraveled, forcing the ship to DaNang to get it replaced.  The port side cat was notorious for giving cold cat shots.  So, the crew took to calling her "old razor blades" because they felt she was ready to be scrapped and turned into the aforementioned blades.  This ship was a legend in the fleet--it was well known that the Shang had been deprived of the needed funding to get it into proper shape.  One old sea story told of the crew having to send their dirty laundry home from the Med because they couldnt wash the laundry salts out of the clothes on board.

A side note, my dad was an aviation machinists mate from 65-69.  He worked on the J57 jet engines in an F-8 Crusader squadron.  On the 1968 cruise, he was flight deck qualified, so he could sit in the cockpit and run up the engines for over-the-side afterburner checks.  He became a plane captain--navy speak for crew chief--of the squadron's "100" jet.  One of the pilots, a young LT, flew that plane and crashed it--he had a ramp strike.  Since there was a war on, VF-13 was not going to get a replacement jet anytime soon, so my dad, the jet engine mechanic/plane captain, ended up being a cook because there was nothing else for him to do!  

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Posted by Felix C. on Friday, October 5, 2012 8:21 PM

angled flight deck and the ship Shangri-La

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