Ship Trivia Quiz

Instead of playinbg silly games with me, all you had to do was say

 " it remains the fastest sailing route around the world, and as such has been the route for several prominent yacht races,"

I don't feel responsible for surfing around the net to find the answer to my question when you have it at hand.

Your turn.

read the link i posted already.

It is the Clipper Route. I need a better answer why.

re-read my post.

Nope

Is it the Whitbread Round after the original sponsor of the race?

Mike T.

Looks like the makings of a riot Bill.

Anyway, that's not the answer.

The Americas Cup will include a leg up the Bay that's in front of my house, directly across is Marin Ship. My wife and I are already staking out a spot across the street on the beach.

Repeat, what is the NAME of the route, and WHY is it taken (you're warm).

clipper route . westerly winds. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clipper_route

Mike, thanks for the education; I stand corrected.

Question: Many prominent sailing yacht races such as the Governor's Cup, The Heineken and Rolex sponsored races, the Around Alone, and the Vendee Globe take a specific route mostly through the southern ocean.

What is the name of this route and why is it taken?

Rich-

I'll accept it, but it wasn't limited  to Florida and Mississippi and included most of the southern states up to and including Virginia and wasn't exclusive to preserving the Live Oak for our naval use. This program also preserved areas of pine forest for the pitch and tar which was also needed for sailing vessels of the time.

After the American Revolution the British tried to buy as much of the Live Oak as they could. The Kentish oak that the British Navy was built upon was depleted, and the only other source of oak lumber for naval use available to the British was certain German oak forests, but their quality was inferior. As we were preparing to build 6 frigates, that lumber was going to be important (mostly sourced from the Carolinas). The Congress then set up these reserves to protect those stocks at the request of the Navy.

Florida entered the program in 1831 after it become part of our nation. In 1880, the program ended as the method of constructing ships had changed not needing to preserve these stocks. The lands were mostly given away for homesteading in 1885 with the exception of Florida. The Gulf Islands was one of the remaining reserves from that program and converted to a National Seashore. I believe some our of the coastal national forests originated also in this program.

http://www.nps.gov/guis/historyculture/upload/Naval%20Live%20Oaks%20Reservation%20Program%20Special%20History%20Study%201794%20to%201880.pdf

Over to you Rich,

Mike T.

BTW: Monitors were also greatly employed for coastal and harbor defense

telsono

Rich - that's a partial answer, I would rather a more complete one and the official ending was after the Civil War.

and Manny, it wasn't the Tirpiz or the Zuiho either!

Mike T.

It was the Live Oak Reservation Program of 1794 - 1880 implemented at the Gulf Islands National Seashore of Florida & Mississippi. A majpr project was the Deer Point plantation. I think I answered both of your questions Mike.

Rich - that's a partial answer, I would rather a more complete one and the official ending was after the Civil War.

and Manny, it wasn't the Tirpiz or the Zuiho either!

Mike T.

Tirpitz...

That was for the preservation of Oak forests necessary in that era for the construction of warships. The program persisted until the beginning of the Civl War.

Let's see haow this one flies. I really couldn't think of a better one.

What was the reason behind the US Naval Reservations created in 1794 and are they still in existence?

Mike T.

Yes. Yao Ming is 7'-6" tall and weighs 310. John Paul Jones was 7'-6" tall and weighed 246, all according to wiki.

Couple of big fellas.

Over to you Mike.

Both were 7' 6" tall.

Mike T.

The guy on the left is Yao Ming, plays for the Rockets. The other guy, the one with the vampire eyes and the funy hat, is also Chinese.

What do/ did these two men have in common, that was unusual?

correct, your turn.

USS Mississippi, former BB-41

what ship was AG-128?

VCs are made from the cascabels of two captured Russian cannon (the barrels are on display at the Royal Artillery Museum at Woolwich). Bondoman is correct with his story of the different materials which may have been used in the past, but apparently there is enough of the original left (part of one cascabel) for another 80-odd medals. Incidentaly, a member of the Australian SAS, Cpl Ben Roberts-Smith has just been awarded an Australian VC for bravery in Afghanistan.

Rick

Just to entertain the troops before the next question; I've been reading a biography of T.E. Lawrence and learned that the Victoria Cross (which he didn't receive) is cast from Russian cannons captured at Sebastopol in the Crimean War. But... more recent metallurgical tests point to Chinese origin, perhaps from the Boxer rebellion, and, during WW2 there may have been a third source.

Just interesting trivia...

i know. there was 1 i wanted to post but can't remember what it was. will post soon.

I thought that was clear.

Well, ddp, the next question would seem to be yours.

BTW, one of Abercrombie's 15 inchers is on exihibit (to this day I think) outside of the Imperial War Museum in London.