Ship Trivia Quiz

Bump to top.  This is a toss up to get the quiz rolling again:

What ship was IX-300?

Almirante LaTorre weas also hms canada during ww1. your turn.

She was related to the Almirante LaTorre, as she was originally designed as the Almirante Cochrane, battleships for Chile.

What was different? A lot, depending on which refit she was in. Originally had two islands, and longitudinal arresting gear. IIRC she also was unusual for a carrier in that her sides had armor plating up to the flight deck level (?).

Best I can do.

what was different about the ww2 hms eagle & who is she related to.

I'll give it to ddp59. I messed it and worded it wrong 

It seems that the term "battleship" was coined in about 1794 in reference to the "ships of the line" in the age of sail. If we go with a steam powered vessel then the "The French Navy introduced steam to the line of battle with the 90-gun Le Napoléon in 1850".

As ddp59 states the term without a time reference is a problem.

Mike T.

what time period as in 1500's, 1600's, 1700's, 1800's or 1900's? if all same caliber then hms dreadnaught.

Name 1st all gun battleship.

BUMP...

Ya'll need a hint?  Or, we wait?   Or, we kill the Q and  bump?  What say you?

Sorry no, the Baychimo's fate is unknown and it did not circumnavigate the world.  The ghost ship I am after did.

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.

Name the vessel, Island and year(s).

EDIT: (6/27) The voyage ended back at the point of origin, it ran aground.

You’re up, Echo139er!

Hot exhaust gases vented by swivelling funnels posed a danger to the ship, and wind-tunnel testing had not suggested any solutions.  Therefore the Akagi and Kega were given two different solution to test in the real world and hopefully find a solution

Imperial Japanese Navy air carrier sister-ships Akagi and Kaga were given different exhaust systems. Why?

Yeah, I didn't want to refer to anything mysterious or spooky because that would have given it away, especially where Cyclops is concerned (Bermuda Triangle).

Even though the most likely explanation in all 3 cases was that the colliers were 'converted' to transport other kinds of ore, which eroded the central support braces to the point where they could collapse in heavy seas - the likely fate of all 3 ships - I can't help but think of the Bermuda Triangle aspect of the Cyclops' disappearance, and the idea that this was perhaps a 'cursed' family.

You're up!

Proteus, Nereus, Jupiter, and Cyclops. Proteus was lost at sea to an unknown cause sometime after 23 November 1941. Nereus was lost at sea sometime after 10 December 1941 while steaming from St. Thomas in the Virgin Islands. Cyclops was lost at sea to an unknown cause sometime after 4 March 1918. Choose.

Choose: verb /CHo͞oz/
    Pick out or select (someone or something) as being the best or most appropriate of two or more alternatives.
    Decide on a course of action, typically after rejecting alternatives: “he chose to go”.

This might be phrased somewhat vaguely, but if it is just say so, and I will try to add more information without giving it away.  Even so, though, you guys will probably get it right away.

In a somewhat related vein, the Jupiter/Langley was one of a 4-ship class.  In addition to being the only one converted to a carrier, what else made her different from her sister ships?  Not so much something about what the Jupiter was as what she wasn't.

You are correct! Your turn, alumni72.

She also became the USS Langley, CV-1.

Collier AC-3, USS Jupiter, was the U.S. Navy’s
first electrically propelled ship. What else?

You are correct tom, your turn.

HMS Wellesley was (A) gaining the distinction of being the last British ship of the line to be sunk by enemy action and (B) the only one to have been sunk by an air-raid. (Thank you, Wikipedia.)

The HMS Wellesley is somewhat famous for 2 reasons. What are they?

Oh yeah...    

The Eduard Bohlen was a ship that ran aground off the coast of Namibia’s Skeleton Coast on September 5, 1909, in a thick fog. Currently the wreck lies in the sand a distance from the shoreline.

http://www.artificialcrab.net/2011/01/shipwreck-of-the-eduard-bohlen-conception-bay-skeleton-coast-namibia/

You are up Mr. kinekx

It's the Eduard Bohlen. Wrecked off the Namibia coast in 1909

Oooh Sorry ddp, not even close.

So you know, I was able to find the answer by that picture alone, so it is possible.

location: Aral Sea between Kazakhstan & Uzbekistan

Who am I?   Give ship name and location to pass go and collect $229

And we're back on track - I hope!

Over to you, Echo!