Ship Trivia Quiz

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?

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. 

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 ..."

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. 

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!

:-)

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

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.

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!

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

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.

Homeland Security

Colombia 2007

Ecuador 1998

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

Surface_Line wrote:

And what is HLS?

Harvard Law School? 

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

And what is HLS?

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.

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

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)

We're needing a guess here. 

 So I will offer up USS Wasp as it appears that the current LHD must be the tenth to bear the name.  She must be considered by her crew to be about 40,000 tons of diplomacy.

And the first Wasp was a small schooner that was a member of Esek Hopkins' first squadron that raided the British forts at Nassau in the Bahamas.  Other vessels in that squadron included the schooner Fly (wonder why that name wasn't reused nine times), the flagship Alfred, the Providence, Cabot, etc, etc.

Rick

A bit, but the crewmen don't wear uniforms and aren't under naval disciplinary rules. (Can't flog 'em.) Just merchant marine types under government pay. Now, what was the question again? What US ship name has been used the most?

Navypitsnipe:

What Ship Name has been used more than any other by the US Navy? How many ships have held the name? and how did the name originate (why was the first ship named this)?

Thanks - a bit like our RFA (Royal Fleet Auxiliary) then.

Rick

USNS=United States Naval Ship. Usually an auxilliary, like an oiler, with a US civil service crew and sometimes a Navy contingent (communications section, for instance). They are identified with blue and yellow stripes on their stacks.

Wikipedia definition:

United States Naval Ship or USNS is the prefix designation given to non-commissioned ships of the United States Navy. These are usually auxiliary support vessels owned by the US Navy and operated by Military Sealift Command that are in service and crewed by civilians rather than Navy personnel. In comparison, US Navy ships commissioned into service have the designation USS and are crewed by US Navy personnel.

Here is the USNS Comfort:

Here is the USNS Lewis & Clark: