Ship Trivia Quiz

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.

 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?

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? 

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

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?

Revenue Cutter Hudson

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.

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.

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

Rick
Seattle, WA

Yes, that is it.

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)

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

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

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

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.

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

montanna class.

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

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

Audacious

correct

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

SOL = 74 guns or large.

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

You know....I was not thinking of that one. There was one lost during the 19th century(I shall not reveal as that is a good future question) but technically you are correct.

So correct answer it is. Good job.

OK, here goes-

In the first half of 1945, a U-boat was sunk by a Catalina. Twelve days earlier, the U-boat had sunk two Allied ships in the same area-one US and one British. The wrecks of two of the vessels have recently been located. Name the U-boat number and the names of the British and American ships.

Would it be the U-1107 which was sunk on April 30, 1945 in the bay of Biscay west of Brest by US Catalina VP-631R? It was on it s first and last war patrol in which it sunk the US flag vessel Cyrus McCormick and the UK flag vessel Empire Gold.

That's the one! My dad did 2 trips on the McCormick, but joined the Navy before she was sunk.

Over to you telsono.

Regards,

Stenscience

Thank you stenscience -

it was easy after I found a website that had information on all of the uboats. It seems that most of the uboat kills by aircraft was done by Liberators by 1945.

As to my question:

Name the four ships of the First Republic of Texas Navy and their fates.
this would be during the Texas War of Independence.

Mike T. 

As per http://www.texasnavy.com/shiplist.htm:

Liberty - Sold in July 1836

Invincible - Wrecked

Brutus - Wrecked

Independence - Surrendered

Stephen F. Austin, Water Witch, Red River, and San Felipe preceded the official Navy.  The first shot of the Texas Revolution was fired by San Felipe on 1 Sep 1835 when she fired on the Mexican RC CorreoMexicano.

Interesting bit of history I did not know till I researched your question.  

That what you were looking for?

Perfect, I originally researched this subject trying to find information on the old kit "War of Independence Schooner" which I believe is the "Brutus".

Over to you oceano75