Ship Trivia Quiz

I'll take a shot at this: Was it the Wellesley (sunk in 1940 by Luftwaffe)?

Kindly name the last British ship-of-the-line taken in combat-surrendered,burnt, or destroyed.

SOL = 74 guns or large.

correct

Audacious

what british battleship in ww1 sunk by a mine after only a year in service?

That's the class. The class was canceled before construction began due to the increasing value of submarines and aircraft carriers. it would have been by far the most powerful battleship ever, toting around 12 16-inch guns, 20 5-inch guns, anywhere from 10-40 40mm Bofors AA guns and up to 56 20mm oerlikon cannon at 32 Kts. It would have been 920 ft long, with 8 boilers for a total of 172,000 SHP, and a crew of 2355-2789. This class would have made the Iowa Class look like a canoe equipped with BB guns

montanna class.

thanks, this should be an easy one. what was the largest battleship class ever DESIGNED in the US?

Yup.  Actually, on CG-47& 48, both masts were quadrupod (four legs) and on CG-49-51, both masts were tripod.

You're up, Mr. Snipe.

the aft mast on the first 2 has a boxed shape, where as the next 3 had a tripod style mast

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/75/USS_Ticonderoga_%28CG-47%29_1985.jpg

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/66/USS_Vincennes_04014912.jpg

Paint comes and goes.  I'm looking for something structural.

the main mast of the 1st 2 ships are painted black wereas the others are gray?

What was the visual difference between the first two Aegis cruisers - Ticonderoga and Yorktown, and the next group of three (Vincennes, Valley Forge and Gates)?

(painted hull numbers don't count)

Yes, that is it.

Is this the sloop Decatur at the Battle of Seattle on 26 January 1856?

Rick
Seattle, WA

Kindly name the U. S. Navy warship which provided cannon fire to defend installations against attacking Indians.(Native Americans)

Any time period is fine although I have only found one instance of this occuring.

Bingo

Her CO was First Lieutenant Frank Newcomb.  She towed the torpedo boat Winslow from under Spanish guns in Cardenas Bay in the Spanish American war.

The Navy officer was Ensign Worth Bagley.   

You're up.

Revenue Cutter Hudson

I read the link - very interesting!  Thanks for posting it.

Next question:

This Revenue Cutter (should give you a hint on the time frame) was honored for towing a crippled Navy vessel out of harm's way during a battle.  The President convinced Congress to authorize special medals specifically for the Cutter's CO and her crew.  The CO was awarded a Special Congressional Gold Medal,   the XO a Special Silver Medal and each member of the crew a Special Bronze Medal.  What was the name of this Revenue Cutter and who was her CO?

As an aside, an officer on the Navy ship had the dubious honor of becoming the only Navy officer killed in the war of which this battle was a part.   Four ships were named for him, most recently a FFG.   Bonus points (not needed to get the question right):  Who was the Navy officer?

That's the answer oceano, the next one's yours.

There was a fine documentary concernig this discovery on Nova, a PBS show. If your are interested, here is a link:   http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/killersubs/about.html

Still no hard and fast answer, but recent evidence says she fired her torpedos at West Virginia and Oklahoma then proceeded to West Loch and was scuttled.  An explosion in West Loch in 1944 sank a number of gators.  The Navy scooped up the wreckage and dumped it outside the harbor.  The mini went with it.  University of Hawai'i (among others) located the wreckage and believe they have identified it as the missing sub.  Some skeptics remain unconvinced saying it could be some other sub (presumably from some other attack on Pearl Harbor??).  Is that the answer you had in mind? 

 Wow! That's news to me about the Forrestal, I never would have found that by googling for sure. Good question, Surface Line.

 I really didn't want to derail your question as I pretty much figured that you weren't thinking below the surface, but I guess fair is fair. It's going to be hard to come up with a question of the same caliber (calibre,  for you non-US English speakers) So I'll take the easy way out and ask an  easy one to get the thread rolling again.

 What happened to the fifth Japanese minisub at Pearl Harbor?

The Lipscombfish is a pretty good answer.  I had always thought of her as a one-ship class, but today I found references to her as "generally similar to the Sturgeon class", so I guess that gives her a multi-ship class, and lets her qualify as "different from her sisters", and I've never yet met a submariner who wouldn't insist that an SSN was a "major warship", so it seems the question is answered.

I had the USS Forrestal in mind.  Forrestal was the only one of her four-ship class to not have a 1200 psi steam plant.  Forrestal had a plant of significantly older technology that ran at 600psi.

You're up, subfixer.

OK, the USS Glenard P. Lipscomb SSN-685 was, with exception of her power plant, a Sturgeon class attack submarine (which is, as far as I can determine, a warship) and differed from her sister ships in having a turbo-electric drive. I am sure that this isn't the ship you are looking for, Surface Line, but I wanted to throw her out there. The internet isn't the only place to find information and that I know this bit of trivia because I worked on her.  But it could be found on the internet if you looked in the right place. Are you saying that we should only ask questions that are only found in obscure publications? If so, we are going to limit the potential numbers of participants to this thread to those who have access to the pubs. Then the thread will probably die. Look how long it took you to find a suitable question, Maybe we could start a parallel "Ship Trivia Quiz Lite" to alow conventional web surfers to participate.

yup - agreed.  I noticed that Wikipedia had not picked up on that particular quote.  Just because I don't approve of google and wiki doesn't mean I don't look at them for curiosity.   I look at large scale airplane models, too, even though I don't build them.  :-)

I'll start researching the new question, but, for the record...

My question was "Googleable" but I never used Wikipedia.  I had done significant research on my own a few years ago while compiling a history of icebreakers to go along with my model of USCGC Eastwind.  I almost invariably have a historical reference sheet displayed with any model I build.  I gathered data from many sources (none of them Wikipedia) but the two sources I quoted were the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute and the US Coast Guard Historian's website.

Yeah - I know.  I just haven't been able to come up with a reasonable question that wouldn't come up on a google search.  I don't believe the trivia question should be a measure of google technology and I certainly do not intend to use wikipedia for a reference source.  [end of fuddy duddy rant]

You want trivia?  Which major warship built in the last 60 years had a different propulsion plant from her sisters?

("major warship" disqualifies the frigate Glover, different though she may be)

As ever, you may come up with a reasonable answer that I had not thought of.

Surface Line correctly answered my question - the first true arctic-class ice breaker was the Russian Yermak.  The next question is his.

Yermak, the next question is yours.

Didn't think it wpuld be that hard.  If you Google "first true icebraeker" the second reference has the ship's name.

You are correct - Yermak. 

It's all yours.