Ship Trivia Quiz

Thanks - I'm thinking one up now - watch this space!

Very good, Rick. Now give us one of your good ones.

Didn't have a clue until your hint . A Pacific hurricane is a "Typhoon"... "Typhoon" and "Volga Boatman can only mean a Russian nuclear submarine... and  quick Google reveals it as the recreational swimming poll installed in the Akula or Typhoon class subs

Rick

It's the captains bathroom of the K-129.

Subfixer, your clue is pretty far out so I'm going for a far out answer.

During the 60s, when the cold war was at its height, there was a cruiser, the USS Northhampton. It was designed to be if an all else failed escape for the president in the event DC was bombed. To the best of my knowledge all it did was sailed in circles off the Virginia coast waiting for "The Day". Anyway it is well known that President Kennedy liked to swim  because of his bad back. Is it possible we are looking at a lap pool installed on the Northhampton for the Pres?

Ted

OK, OK....   Here is a hint: Try humming "Volga Boatmen" to yourself while you ponder the question in a Pacific hurricane.

Pool, yes, but not even close on the other thing. Keep trying.

it is a pool of some type maybe for model naval testing.

OK, this is going to be my last for a while, I'm gonna give someone else a chance to play after this.

Any idea what this thing is and what it is on?

Well Subfixer I guess that is close enough.

The assumption was  that the canal would be widened in the near future. The third lock project was underway only to be abandoned at the end of the war when there was no longer a need to get warships quickly from the Atlantic to Pacific. I doubt the powers that be at Buships would have allowed the designers to deviate from the panamax standards if they realized it would take 70 years to complete the widening project.

Its being done now, not because of warships, but because cargo ships are getting too big to go through the canal.

Anyway its your turn

That they were going to have to be too big for the Panama Canal.

I guess that makes it my turn to ask a question.

What major assumption did the designers of the Montana (BB67) class battleships and the designers of the Midway class aircraft carriers make?

You've got it, amphib. That is Drydock Number One in Portsmouth, Virginia, known as Norfolk Naval Shipyard. The Merrimac was converted into the ironclad Virginia in that very dock which is still in use today. It was built in 1827 and is in fine shape as the material used in its construction was granite.

If you look very closely, you can make out the upended and half buried Dahlgren guns that are utilized as bollards just out the outer crane tracks. The easiest on to see is just below the sedan parked next to the building at the top middle of the photo. Another can be seen under the derrick of the crane.

This picture seems to have been taken in the early sixties.

This is one of the drydocks at the navy yard in Portsmouth Virgina. I think you are looking for the USS Merrimack to have been converted to the first iron clad - CSA Virgina in it. I'm not sure the dock is that old though or maybe it was extensively rebuilt.

Scorpion (SSN-589) went in & George Washington (SSBN-598) came out?

Yes, but that isn't what I was really looking for. What went in it as one thing and came out as another?

1st american drydock?

What's the historic significance of this drydock?

correct.  your turn

She was sunk at Bikini Atoll during the Baker atomic test.

what was the fate of the battleship uss arkansas bb-33?

coreect! you get to ask the next question

hornet

O.K here it is!

Witch carrier was it that torpedo squadron 8 under John Waldrons comand atacked the Japinse force atacking the midway atoll?

You've got it, celt.

Here she is in 1855:

The anser to that one is the Kanrin Maru she was the Japanise first sail and screw driven ship.

Angus

What was the name of Japan's first steam powered screw driven warship?

correct.

She was utilized as a target ship for the Bikini atomic bomb tests. After surviving that, she was towed to Pearl Harbor, examined, then used as a gunnery target by the Iowa.  After surviving that, she was finally sunk by an aerial torpedo.

after ww2, what was the nevada used for & what happened to her?