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How about the HMS Crocodile one of the Euphrates class troopships? The others were the Serapis, Malabar, Jumma and Euphrates.
Ted
"As I was spittin' into the Ditch aboard o' the Crocodile "... first line of "Soldier 'an Sailor Too", dedicated to the Royal Regiment of Marines. The other Kipling poem is "Troopin'", with the line " The Malabar's in 'arbour with the Jumner at 'er tail,"
Well done, Ted - the floor is yours.
Rick
Okay here's one for you triva buffs:
When and where was the last major sea battle fought entirely under sail?
HMS Asia carried the flag of Admiral Codrington at the battle of Navarino(Greece) in 1827 the last major sea battle to be fought entirely under sail.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Navarino
well, I thought it would be harder to find the answer but you've got your naval history down pretty good.
ddp59 its your turn
ddp59
After reading your link to the internet I just realized that I was there! Well not in 1827 but many years ago for an amphibious exercise. Only the name is now Pylos. Although it is a nice large bay, I can't imagine two fleets slugging it out there even if the ships were at anchor and swinging on spring lines. At the time people pointed out that the British had fought a great battle there only I didn't appreciate the details.
Just goes to show its a small world and its your turn ddp59.
what hull classification type did the uss bogue start with & what model could you use to build the bogue?
The Bogue started life as a C3-S-A1 hull
Iron Shipwrights offers a kit #4-202 at 1/350 for the USS Bogue. Price around $250.00
For the more adventuresome Revell has kits for ships with C3 hulls - the USS Burleigh and the SS Hawaiian Pilot. Scale is probably 1/400. These will give you a hull to start with.
Tamiya sold a nice little 1/700 kit too.
your turn amphib.
The never built Montana class of battleships would have consisted of 5 ships. What would have been their names and hull numbers.
USS Montana BB-67
USS Ohio BB-68
USS Maine BB-69
USS New Hampshire BB- 70
USS Louisiana BB-71
I'm from the government and I'm here to help.
Yupp, you got it.
Your turn to come up with something.
OK, here's one:
This Royal Navy ship lent its name to a favorite article of attire to one Austin Powers.
HMS Dickey! Wrecked in Queensland at.... Dickey Beach!
I was thinking of HMS Blazer, but yours is much better Bondo , you win. Ask the next one
First to cross the North Pole.
The first ship to reach the geographic north pole was SSN571 Nautilus
First submarine, but not first "ship".
bondoman First submarine, but not first "ship".
Ahem, USS Nautilus is classified as a "ship". But I assume you meant "surface ship", Correct?
If I had meant surface ship only, I would have said so. BTW my mother's college roomate's husband served on Nautilus, not at that time. He was XO on Calhoun and Triton, and commanded Simon Bolivar. We were good friends, he went on eternal patrol in 2008.
The first undisputed sighting of the Pole was on May 12, 1926 by Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen and his American sponsor Lincoln Ellsworth from the airship Norge. Norge, though Norwegian owned, was designed and piloted by the Italian Umberto Nobile. The flight started from Svalbard and crossed the icecap to Alaska. Nobile, along with several scientists and crew from the Norge, overflew the Pole a second time on May 24, 1928 in the airship Italia. The Italia crashed on its return from the Pole, with the loss of half the crew.
The United States Navy submarine USS Nautilus (SSN-571) crossed the North Pole on August 3, 1958, and on March 17, 1959, the USS Skate (SSN-578) surfaced at the Pole, becoming the first naval vessel to do so.
On August 17, 1977, the Soviet nuclear powered icebreaker Arktika completed the first surface vessel journey to the North Pole.
So help me, Bondo, if you are referring to an airship I will nominate you for expulsion to the aircraft forum. :P
subfixer So help me, Bondo, if you are referring to an airship I will nominate you for expulsion to the aircraft forum. :P
bondoman subfixer: So help me, Bondo, if you are referring to an airship I will nominate you for expulsion to the aircraft forum. :P ddp59 you are the winner. Your turn.
subfixer: So help me, Bondo, if you are referring to an airship I will nominate you for expulsion to the aircraft forum. :P
You are not an honorable man, Mister bondoman. Airship, indeed!
I wish I could be a moderator for a day. Ptooey!
Hey Bondo - I gotta protest. Since when did an airship get into ship trivia? If you read very carefully the wikipedia account of the event it only says that the Norge sighted the North Pole not crossed it. You could sight the north pole from 20 miles away. You also didn't specify whether you were asking about the geographic North Pole or the Magnetic North Pole - there is a difference. Since you said first to cross the North Pole - and didn't specify with what, why not include Robert Peary who may have walked across it?
Just kidding but wait to you see what I come up with the next time I get a turn.
I'll bet you lunch the Norge had a bridge, a proper ships wheel, a binnacle and a "helmsman". OK, maybe a pilot, but are you stating ships don't have those? And she floated, just in a lighter medium than water.
I question wiki's assertion "sighted". What did it look like? Toy factories? Animal pens? Undersized barracks?
If Nautilus indeed crossed the north pole, and as I recall was under ice until surfacing once, she must have zig zagged across a sizable area to be certain, ?.
Peary wasn't in a ship. He was on a sled.
Well, I had to come up with something different.
Your turn Ted, and watch that Lee, he's a literal!
Bondo
I think that ddp59 had the better answer so I defer to him.
ddp59, I await your question to see if you can stump the experts.
Sorry, you're right. As I originally said- ddp59 was the one to cut through the Bondofog.
what american 12" guns ship fought in both world wars?
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