Ship Trivia Quiz

What was the original name of this ship and what is special about the name?

Yep, you are right about it being the Munsee (a branch of the Delaware tribe), (Delaware County, Indiana's main city being Muncie, Indiana.), who were in Indiana at one time.  Muncie is actually named for them. There are many spellings of Munsee.  The current name is an alternate of the original name. (Also called Munceytown at one point.)  Some local businesses spell it Munsee.  Munsee Meats being one.  The Mississinewa River passes through Delaware County not too far north of Muncie.  So that picture connects not only two ships connected to Indiana, but the SAME county in Indiana.  Subfixer the question is yours.

DDP- You get the next question I answer for getting the first half.

This is a stretch, but since you are trying to tie the answer to Indiana, I'll give a convoluted answer. The picture was taken from USS Munsee ATF-107, I believe. Munsee is an Indian name. You've got an "Indian" in the name and "Indiana" has the root word "Indian". So there you have it. If you want more, good luck.

p.s. Muncie, Indiana, is named after the same tribe, but as they are spelled differently, I don't think it counts.

USS Mississinewa (AO-59) Lost due to enemy action, 20 November 1944 at Ulithi anchorage, Caroline Islands, sunk by Kaiten manned torpedo, one of five launched from IJN submarines I-36 and I-47

http://www.navsource.org/archives/09/19/19059.htm

That is it.

 I thought the irony of have two Maria Teresa's present at Santiage in 1898 (within and without) would make a nice question.

 Already CB, all yours.

Wow, I'm surprised no else answered.  It was the Austrian ship Maria Teresa.  She was just looking to put in port for the night. Her red-white-red ensign was at first for Spain's red-yellow-red.

I held off answering.  The first USS Indiana was part of the blockade.

She went from this:

To this:

The USS Langley CV-1

You've got it correct, Felix. It's your turn.

Here's a quickie to allow for a legitimate questioner to take over:

What was the US Navy's first electrically driven surface ship?

Cheers,

"Schleswig Holstein" was in Danzig to honour the sailors lost on their cruiser "Magdeburg" in 1914, some of whom were laid to rest in Danzig. The "Magdeburg" ran aground in heavy fog in the Gulf of Finland & was scuttled.

I had a lucky shot with this question while nosing about the ship forum, but I will stick to aircraft & the first taker gets the question.

Schleswig Holstein;

Magdeburg;

That's the one, Milairjunkie. Regardless of when other nations joined in, WW2 is generally accepted to have begun when Germany attacked Poland, 1 September, 1939. At 04:40, the German Air Force attacked the town of Welun, destroying 75% of the city and killing close to 1,200 people, most of them civilians. Five minutes later, the pre-dreadnought Schleswig-Holstein, in Danzig under the pretext of a courtesy visit, opened fire on the Polish military transit depot at Westerplatte.

The floor is yours.

The German ship "Schleswig Holstein" fired directly into (pretty much point blank) the barracks / Customs House at the port of Danzig (now Gdansk) 01/09/1939.

The "Schleswig Holstein" was scuttled following an RAF raid in 1945. 

On 2 October 1942, RMS Queen Mary, then acting as a troopship, cut the light cruiser HMS Curacao in two off the Irish coast. Instructions to the liner and escorts not to stop and pick up survivors resulted in the loss of 338 lives.

Rick

crackers wrote:

The Japanese transport, ARISAN MARU, containing over 1,000 American prisoners, mostly captured in the Philippines, was torpedoed by the U.S.S. SHARK near Taiwan. The Shark was herself sunk a few days later with the loss of all hands. Many of the prisoners excaped the sinking transport only to be abandoned by the Japanese, who refused to rescue them. Only a handful survived.

The Arisan Maru was sunk October 24, 1944.  With about 1800 POWs.

 The Japanese transport, ARISAN MARU, containing over 1,000 American prisoners, mostly captured in the Philippines, was torpedoed by the U.S.S. SHARK near Taiwan. The Shark was herself sunk a few days later with the loss of all hands. Many of the prisoners excaped the sinking transport only to be abandoned by the Japanese, who refused to rescue them. Only a handful survived.

                   Montani semper liberi !  Happy modeling to all and every one of you.

                                                  Crackers          

Montevideo Maru sunk by an american sub Sturgeon. was carrying australian pow's from Rabaul.

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