Ship Trivia Quiz

The next question is yours, Surface Line.

I feel so stupid for not seeing the obvious.

That's the one.

USS Liberty (of Israeli action fame or infamy) was a former Victory ship.

Well, this has been going on for 140 pages. It is inevitable that something would get asked a second time. Personally, I don't remember the answer anyway. Maybe the answer should just be given and a new question asked...

Is that an old one?

recycling old questions now?  :-)

What was the only "Victory" ship to become a "Liberty"?

Bondoman, your turn.

Mike T.

Bondoman that is it. Over to you. Here is a link to more information on that vessel.

http://www.history.navy.mil/photos/sh-us-cs/csa-sh/csash-mr/manassas.htm

Mike T.

The CSS Manassas, originally the Enoch Train, a steam powered tow boat. She carried out an attack on the Federal blockading squadron at Head of Passes, the action being known as the Battle of the Head of Passes in the Mississippi Delta, on October 12, 1861.

Not that one, there was an earlier ship and battle.

Mike T.

CSS Virginia was USS Merrimack

To keep it simple.

What was the name of the first ironclad to be used in the Civil War and what was her original name?

Mike T.

Well, that went fast....    Mike, the floor is yours.  

as an additional tidbit... the pilot of the JU-88 was from kg-54 and survived the war.  Tracked down by the Maddox Association he was invited to join, and did.  Too bad that level of mutual respect seems to have disappeared from our culture.

The USS Maddox

After the assault troops landed on 10July 1943, Maddox was on anti-submarine patrol about 16 miles off shore.  Steaming along, the destroyer was attacked by a German JU-88 Luftwaffe bomber in the predawn darkness.  The plane dropped four 250-pound bombs.  The first landed in the water, the second two hit the fantail and detonated the power (ammunition) magazine, and the last bomb hit in the water by the side of the ship.  The Maddox sank in 90 seconds. (Record for fastest sinking)

Another USS Maddox was the destroyer involved in the Gulf of Tonkin Incident on 2 August 1964.

Mike T.

In World War II, an American warship with this name set a record in an incident involving a JU-88. Two decades later, a vessel with the same name made front page headlines.

What is the name shared by these two vessels?

Whoops! Sorry you mentioned Algeciras sorry. Well your turn.

yep and there was also the Algeciras Bay action in 1801 where the 74 Hannibal ran aground and had to strike.

After noticing your hints, two other possible answers are Swiftsure, 74 under Captain Benjamin Hallowell, which also fought against impossible odds against a French flotilla which included an 80 and three 74s while on his way to Malta;  and Hannibal, 74  which grounded during an attack at Algeciras and had to be abandoned,

HMS Calcutta, a 54 gun two decked fourth rate under Captain Daniel Woodriff, mounting 28 X 18 pdrs. and 26 X 32 pdr. carronades, was forced to defend a small merchant convoy of six vessels from a French Squadron consisting of three 40 gun frigates and five ships of the line off Ushant on Sept. 25, 1805.

After disabling the lead french vessel, the 40 gun frigate Armide, (28 X 18 pdr., 12 X 8 pdr., 4 X 36 pdr. carronades) Calcutta next faced the French 74 gun Magnanime (28 X 36 pdr., 30 X 24 pdr., 16 X 8 pdr., 4 X 36 pdr. car.). After being dismasted, Calcutta was forced to strike, but not before five of the six merchantmen escaped.

off Spain, off Malta, ....

Felix C.

Edit: I mean name either the battle or the ship which surrendered or date, etc.

It looks like you're going to have to throw us a little bone here.

Edit: I mean name either the battle or the ship which surrendered or date, etc.

Kindly name a battle in which a British two-decker or larger was forced to surrender to the forces of Napoleon. There were a few compared to the opposite outcome so it should take  a bit of searching.

subfixer

That's the one, if you mean a ship that was actually a bomb and not a mortar carrying vessel.   Hellburner was the actual term I was looking for. The Dutch first used them in action against the Spanish at the Siege of Antwerp (1584-1585) during the Eighties Year War. The Spanish feared them so much that when fireships (not hellburners) were set against their Armada by the English that they really ran for it. The Dutch developer of the Hellburner ship was known by the Spanish to be in England at the time so their fear of them wasn't unfounded.

Here is a link to a pretty good entry in Wikipedia about them:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hellburners

 

OK Felix, your turn again.

That is a really interesting article.  It seems the Spanish had even more reason to fear for their Armada, since it was Elizabeth I who  hired and subsidised the inventor in Antwerp in the first place!

That's the one, if you mean a ship that was actually a bomb and not a mortar carrying vessel.   Hellburner was the actual term I was looking for. The Dutch first used them in action against the Spanish at the Siege of Antwerp (1584-1585) during the Eighties Year War. The Spanish feared them so much that when fireships (not hellburners) were set against their Armada by the English that they really ran for it. The Dutch developer of the Hellburner ship was known by the Spanish to be in England at the time so their fear of them wasn't unfounded.

Here is a link to a pretty good entry in Wikipedia about them:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hellburners

OK Felix, your turn again.

Bomb Vessel

Definition:   (Pay strict attention to the wording of the definition)

Weapon with the capacity to inflict death and destruction indiscriminately and on a massive scale.

submarine http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/lostsub/hist1580.html