Ship Trivia Quiz

I gave up right after you said cro'jack. 

I'm just watching the emails go by, waiting for the answer so I can assure myself that it's not that I'm stupid so much as it's that I'm completely ignorant of sailing-related stuff. 

(From across the pond, over the falls and under the bridge.)

No offence intended subfixer, my comments were not directed at you personally, just a little gentle teasing, given the comments about the nature of my question from your side of the pond. 

Please don't have a sense of humour failure over a trivia quiz of all things.

GeorgeW wrote:

When I posed this question Rick I had you and perhaps Bryan 01 very much in mind to provide the answer. I believe you do have it, but as far as the link with Victory is concerned, don't think windlass, the device is staring at you in the picture, don't let the trees block your view of the wood, so to speak. No need for an apology, my next clue was to be a photo of the location; in the absence of any other reponses, it may be a kindness for you to put our American cousins out of their misery

I am thinking that you may be insinuating a sort of insult to us "Americans" (intended or not) in this statement, I am an American and very proud of it, but I am of overwhelmingly British heritage (with a quarter Dutch Boer thrown in) and don't like where your insinuations are going. I am by no means in "misery". What's up with you guys?

It's not the Victory channel schoonerbumm , it's the device used in association with the Cro'jack  lifts that gives the link.

I can see your thinking re Rameses, but that's not it.

Here's a further picture, this time of the location, obviously not the English Channel.

Nah, George. IF they can't work it out from what is already there, they don't deserve it.

Rick

When I posed this question Rick I had you and perhaps Bryan 01 very much in mind to provide the answer.

I believe you do have it, but as far as the link with Victory is concerned, don't think windlass, the device is staring at you in the picture, don't let the trees block your view of the wood, so to speak.

No need for an apology, my next clue was to be a photo of the location; in the absence of any other reponses, it may be a kindness for you to put our American cousins out of their misery

George,

Despite giving us a picture of HMS Victory, I think your question concerns the old enemy. I also think I've got the answer, but can't connect a windlass with a French castle - if indeed, that's what you are drawing our attention to. If I'm right, the film starred Malcolm McDowell.

However, I don't want this thread to become the "George and Rick Show" - if I'm right - so perhaps somebody would like to take it on from here - if they can. I hope you don't mind me leaving a couple of clues - I'm sorry if I'm treading on your toes or if I'm totally wrong.

Rick

Here's an initial clue to start the ball rolling.

The mechanical device in the first part of the question is shown on this photo of Dr Longridge's fine model of Victory.

There have been a number of questions on this topic relating to written or film trivia with a nautical twist, and this is no different.

If you don't like the question searat ..... then pass

This one may be a little more testing and hopefully google proof;  the location is real, but the ship and the Captain are fictional, but are very well known. The period is Napoleonic.

Combine a mechanical device for raising the cro'jack yard on HMS Victory with the title of an iconic British film of the 1960's, set in a peculiarly British institution, and you will find the place that will lead you to the Captain of a vessel with a name that echoes the ancient kings of Egypt.

What is the Place?

What is the name of the ship?

Who is the Captain?

You've got it, George. Reputedly the first firing in action of a locomotive torpedo. It never reached its target!

Next question please.

Rick

Are you referring to the firing of the first torpedo by a British naval ship in the action with the Peruvian ship?

Nearly there George, but what was the "first" she achieved?

Rick

Would that be HMS Shah, Pacific flagship of Rear Admiral De Horsey. The lower masts of the Shah, were used on HMS Victory as replacements.

The Shah had a interesting career, the last sailing frigate, she fought a single action against a Peruvian armoured turret ship Huascar, and 400 of her crew later fought in Natal for five months as an infantry battalion.

So...got you all foxed, eh? A clue, then, before it falls off the bottom of the page.

The restored ship can be seen in an English south-coast dockyard.

Rick

Thanks...

Early in the twentieth century, parts of this ship were reputed to have been used to restore a much more famous vessel. Years earlier she had been involved in a "first" in the Pacific. Which ship, what was the "first" and how did she help in a restoration?

Rick

How about Robert Holmes, in the service of the Royal African Company, sent by James, Duke of York (Lord High Admiral of England and later King James II) to capture Dutch trading posts and colonies in West Africa?

Rick

You'll never know how much innocent pleasure it gives me to say....

     Wrong in almost every essential!  Try again....

Rick