Ship Trivia Quiz

with Winston Churchill he could claim US citizenship since his mother was an American. Also, he wasn't a monarch but the Prime Minister, the King or Queen eventhough a figurehead is still the monarch.

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Churchil; was also the first person to recieve honary US citizenship in 1963.

Lafayette received "Natural Born" US citizenship in 1784 through an act of the Maryland General Assembly and was legal through the Articles of the Confederation. 

Mike T.

Are you referring to the USS Wisconsin (or WisKy) as she recieved the bow of the unfinished USS Kentucky after her original bow was damaged and had to be replaced?

what american battleship is supposedly longer then her sisters but not by design so is supposedly the longest battleship in the us navy?

I suppose a court of inquiry could demand that I name all qualifying ships and not rely on website hearsay... But I plead the fifth.

Force9

 

ddp59 easily takes the prize.    I certainly cannot name each of the vessels, but I'll take the count of 16 as gospel since it is noted on the Churchill's official navy website.

The Winnie is also the source of a few other trivia tidbits - the only American warship with a foreign national assigned to the crew and the only one to officially fly a foreign ensign.  Of course, it was one of these Royal Navy exchange officers who got throttled by her infamously indelicate lady skipper when she thought he'd run aground leaving port.  Turns out she ordered an acceleration outside the official tolerances (apparently over the objections of the crew) and broke the screw...

Bondo - your objection is duly noted but denied.  Certainly John H. and big Ben both ceased to be foreign nationals when they invented our country.

ddp59 - over to you...

 

Force 9 I don't think your original question can be answered. I mean, John Hancock was a "foreign national", correct? SSN/ SSBN wise, Simon Bolivar and Mariano Vallejo also come to mind, not to mention Ben Franklin.

USS WINSTON S. CHURCHILL is the fifth U.S. warship to be named in honor of an Englishman and the 16th warship to be named after a foreign national – the only one in active service today.

http://www.churchill.navy.mil/site%20pages/history.aspx

You are referring to USS Winston Churcill,   There are plenty, like Lafayette and Comte de Grasse.  But to find them all is going to take someone with better resources than mine.

This SSBN stuff reminds me of one of my life's regrets... When I was in college I got a letter from the US Navy inviting me down for dinner at the officers club and a night on a submarine at the San Diego sub base.  They were recruiting tech students from tech colleges with high GPA (little did they know my GPA was about to plummet!).  I didn't take 'em up on it and I lost an opportunity for a great experience -- toss it on the heap of stuff I'd do different if I could pass this way again...

Anyway, I'm new to this trivia stuff so I'll start out simple and keep to the current theme:

How many US Warships have been named after foreign nationals?  Hint: only one is in current active service.

Yes, F9 the SSBN is a good answer. As I suggested earlier, I was quite attached to a certain officer in the nuclear boat fleet, his son Skipper was a good friend too. We spent summers with his family in Mare Island, Pearl Harbor and Newport News; all the hot spots of the Silent Service.

The other ship I had in mind was Reina Mercedes, a Spanish Battlecruiser captured in the S/A war and named after a Spanish Queen.

Your turn.

USS Kamehameha (SSBN-642) (called Kamfish by her crew), a Benjamin Franklin-class submarine, was the only ship of the United States Navy to be named forKamehameha I (c. 1758-1819), the first King of Hawaii (c. 1795-1819). She is one of only two ships of the United States to be named after a monarch.^[1] She later was reclassified as an attack submarine and redesignated SSN-642.

The other was the Alfred (Named after Alfred the Great.)

Bourbon, no. Alfred, maybe but provide a citation that it was King Alfred. In my list, one male, one female.

Other US warships named after Englishmen were Alfred, an armed merchantman named after King Alfred the Great

Would "Alfred" and "Bourbon" of the continental navy count?

Name a US navy ship named after a foreign monarch. I can think of two, but would be interested in any others. Stuff like "Queen of the Seas", or USS Monarch don't count.

arkansas is what i was looking for as she lasted the war wereas utah was destroyed on the 1st day of the war for the americans. also the utah did not have 12" guns on her just the turrets at the start of ww2. your turn.

BB-32 Arkansas. And I'm standing behind Amphib- Utah certainly did fight on 12/7/41, to the death.

what american 12" guns ship fought in both world wars?

I was thinking Utah but my fingers spelled Idaho. They sometimes play tricks on me.

Idaho BB-42 was commissioned in 1919 and wasn't at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, and she was a 14" ship.

I think you mean Utah BB-31 and you are of course correct.

Bondo

I think you forgot the USS Idaho that was still in commission in the US Navy until sunk at Pearl Harbor Dec 7 1941 although she was being used as a target at the time.

USS Mississippi BB-23 and USS Idaho BB-24. Both were decommissioned by the USN in 1914 and sold to Greece, where they became Kilkis and Limnos, and served in the Royal Hellenic Navy. Both were sunk by Stuka dive bombers on April 23, 1941.

what american 12" guns ship fought in both world wars?

Sorry, you're right. As I originally said- ddp59 was the one to cut through the Bondofog.

Bondo

I think that ddp59 had the better answer so I defer to him.

ddp59, I await your question to see if you can stump the experts.

I'll bet you lunch the Norge had a bridge, a proper ships wheel, a binnacle and a "helmsman". OK, maybe a pilot, but are you stating ships don't have those? And she floated, just in a lighter medium than water.

I question wiki's assertion "sighted". What did it look like? Toy factories? Animal pens? Undersized barracks?

If Nautilus indeed crossed the north pole, and as I recall was under ice until surfacing once, she must have zig zagged across a sizable area to be certain, ?.

Peary wasn't in a ship. He was on a sled.

Well, I had to come up with something different.

Your turn Ted, and watch that Lee, he's a literal!

Hey Bondo - I gotta protest. Since when did an airship get into ship trivia? If you read very carefully the wikipedia account of the event it only says that the Norge sighted the North Pole not crossed it.  You could sight the north pole from 20 miles away. You also didn't specify whether you were asking about the geographic North Pole or the Magnetic North Pole - there is a difference. Since you said first to cross the North Pole - and didn't specify with what, why not include Robert Peary who may have walked across it?

Just kidding but wait to you see what I come up with the next time I get a turn.

Ted

bondoman

subfixer:

So help me, Bondo, if you are referring to an airship I will nominate you for expulsion to the aircraft forum.  :P

 

ddp59 you are the winner. Your turn.

You are not an honorable man, Mister bondoman.    Airship, indeed! 

 I wish I could be a moderator for a day.   Ptooey!

subfixer

So help me, Bondo, if you are referring to an airship I will nominate you for expulsion to the aircraft forum.  :P