Ship Trivia Quiz

Sorry for the delay.  Here's the best I can do:

Name three country's navies that US Coast Guard ships have been transferred to.  (Your answer may be better than mine)

Press release from the HLS website indicates 29 countries have received exUSCG vessels since 1997

Felix C. wrote:

Press release from the HLS website indicates 29 countries have received exUSCG vessels since 1997

Name three and the question is yours, Felix.

HLS...  hmm.  Tell us three of those specific countries and you're all set.

And what is HLS?

Surface_Line wrote:

And what is HLS?

Harvard Law School? 

Homeland Security

Colombia 2007

Ecuador 1998

Mexico, Peru, Cuba post war '83footers. But do not know if that is too boat size to qualify

I'm probably too late, but I'll say the Soviet Union (the Wind-class icebreakers during WWII), South Vietnam (the 83-footers), and Israel (the Northland - which became the first ship of the Israeli Navy.  Just what the Israelis needed:  and icebreaker.)  Maybe two of those answers don't meet the criteria, in that the ships that went to the USSR came back, and the Northland wasn't actually, legally, formally transferred.  She was disposed of, and turned up running refugees to Palestine; then somehow ended up in the service of the Israeli government.

Boy, there would be an interesting model - or two, or three.  She was built with a huge, two-masted square sail rig, and wound up her USCG career in WWII with 1940s equipment and the gear to operate a Grumman Duck.

jtilley wrote:

I'm probably too late, but I'll say the Soviet Union (the Wind-class icebreakers during WWII), South Vietnam (the 83-footers), and Israel (the Northland - which became the first ship of the Israeli Navy.  Just what the Israelis needed:  and icebreaker.)  Maybe two of those answers don't meet the criteria, in that the ships that went to the USSR came back, and the Northland wasn't actually, legally, formally transferred.  She was disposed of, and turned up running refugees to Palestine; then somehow ended up in the service of the Israeli government. Boy, there would be an interesting model - or two, or three.  She was built with a huge, two-masted square sail rig, and wound up her USCG career in WWII with 1940s equipment and the gear to operate a Grumman Duck.

Easy first pic from wiki:

Just to set the flavor of the times:

Israel bought four B-17s through proxies, three of which made it home after various stops through Central America. Also, the very familiar S-199s (Czech Me-109s) that were crated and shipped in Central American registered C-46's into the country.

Here's a good linky:

http://www.jacksjoint.com/cutter_northland_at_war.htm

Felix,

If you're happy with them, then it's OK with me.

I was thinking about larger ships, so I had in  mind England [ten 250' Lake class cutters], USSR [Icebreakers Northwind(I) and Westwind] and the USA [various, including icebreaker Southwind, postwar transfer to USN, other than wartime standard transfer of control to USN]

 Felix, you got it, with your HSL reference.  (I always thought that was a Light Anti-submarine helicopeter squadron, but what the heck.)  Well done!

I will have to pass. I re-read the question and it said ships. A boat can be carried on a ship, so the '83 do not qualify. I only scored 2 out of 3.

Too bad, I had my question ready but rules are rules.

 Again, I think I did not answer the question.

HLS not HSL.

:-)

Please- go for it Felix!  We need a new questioner here, really bad.  

Felix C. wrote:

I will have to pass. I re-read the question and it said ships. A boat can be carried on a ship, so the '83 do not qualify. I only scored 2 out of 3. Too bad, I had my question ready but rules are rules.  Again, I think I did not answer the question. HLS not HSL.

Now go ahead and ask the next question Felix, Please!

Heh, Heh, I did think about heavy-lift ships and floating dry docks would require a modification in the definition. But I found it:

Colombia, Ecuador as stated and S.Vietnam to Phillipines in 1985

Question:

Last or most recent surface warship sunk by surface gunfire alone by another warship. 

Sorry no. I do not believe the Mat... qualifies as a warship. Have read it referred to as a cargo ship.  That is why I used the legalize in "surface warship sunk by ..."

Sorry to be late, but as to the previous question... Dr. Tilley mentioned S. Vietnam received USCG 82s.  S. Vietnam was also given several of our 311' HECs, the old Navy AVPs that we got from them after WWII.  Also, Russia gave all of our breakers back after the war.  England kept the 250s and Nam kept the 311s. 

Does a patrol boat count as a warship? I was seeing it as actual warship dimension vessel. A warship has to be 145' or so otherwise it is a boat. I recall that was the case with the SGBs of WWII, initially numbers as boats then renamed as ships due to discovering the met the size criteria.   

Difference between boat and ship. What are the rules, does one answer the question if no replies and post another?

Yes, it is prior to 2002.

OK - Let's bracket this.

The last true surface action in WWII saw the American DDs Ashburne, Braine, Shaw and Russel sink the Japanese DD Hinoki in night action on 7-8 January 1945.  After tha there were several skirmishes between PT boats and patrol boats, but nothing as large as a DD was ever sunk.  So the last DD or larger size ship sunk in WWII was the IJN Hinoki on 7-8 January 1945.

The incident you have in mind occurred before 2002.  Did it occur after 1945? 

Sorry it is after 1945

Question:

Last or most recent surface warship sunk by surface gunfire alone by another warship

I don't think the question restricts us to combat situations. There have been a lot of surface warships sunk as targets over the years since 1945. The difficulty is discovering one that was sunk by gunfire from only one ship as opposed to several.

Rick

april 1988 U.S.-Iran Gulf Battle

http://www.nytimes.com/1988/04/24/world/us-iran-gulf-battle-powerful-lesson-in-how-naval-warfare-has-changed.html

Normally I would refrain from commenting on another person's answer, but this action was the first thing I looked at when the question was raised.

As near as I can tell, here was happened in Operation Praying Mantis, on Apr 14 1988.  There were three Iranian surface combatants sunk - Joshan, Sahand and Sabalan.  Joshan was sunk by Standard MR-1 missiles in the surface to surface mode from Wainwright (CG-28) and Simpson (FFG-56), and Sabalan and Sahand were sunk by bombs from A-6s from Enterprise.  That part is referenced from "Electronic Greyhounds", by Michael C. Potter, and it fits with my memory.

There was much, much 5" ammo expended during the operation, which was all from the DesRon 9 ships firing on the Iranian oil platforms with reckless disregard of the fact that they had zero resupply of 5" ammunition in theater.  The Commodore encouraged his commanding officers to continue firing at the platforms in an effort to "destroy" them.  This is referenced from my experience at the Ordnance Logistics office stateside, where resupply of 5" ammunition needed to be sent out to the Indian Ocean immediately from the West Coast.

And neither the missile fire or the bombs on the Iranian ships, nor the gunfire on the Iranian oil platform constitutes an answer to this question, so I did not offer this operation as a solution to the question.  I'm still interested in hearing what the last sinking by gunfire was.