Ship Trivia Quiz

I believe youre looking for the USS Bluejack--SS-581.  She was the second of three Barbel class subs, launched in 1959 and decommissioned in 1990.  She was the last of the Barbel class to be decommissioned.....Bonefish was decommissioned in 1988 after a fire, and Barbel was decommissioned in 1989.  

The Barbel class was the last class of US subs to be built with diesel-electric propulsion.  They were also the first production submarines to be built with the round "teardrop" hull that just about every military submarine in the world today uses.  The hull designs previously had focused on performance on the surface, while this teardrop design allowed for better speed and quieter performance while submerged.  It also allowed the entire bow of the sub to be used to house the main sonar array.

the original Seawolf was a one off, not a class ship, this class's powerplant was a much more common design.

Let me rephrase one of the clues, this class was the first non-experimental vessels to utilize a major design feature, one not present in the Seawolf design.

USS Seawolf SSN-575 had a liquid sodium cooled reactor until it was replace by a pressurized water reactor.

nope, you're getting warmer though

skipjack submarine?

Nope,

Ranger was going to be a museum, in fact the proposed site wasn't far from where I live, but that doesn't look like it's going to happen.

Also, unless I'm mistaken, the Kitty Hawk class (technically the JFK subclass) are the last carriers to be built with boilers, not the Forrestals.

Keep guessing.

Think smaller.

This design change is equally as revolutionary for this classes type as the angled deck was for carriers.

USS Ranger CV-61. AKA the bridge killer.

First class of US carriers to fully adopt the angled deck.

Last class of US carriers to use fuel oil boiler/ turbine power.

Not sure though about the museum. I understand she is waiting for the torch.

Ok.

This vessel was part of the first full production class to integrate a revolutionary new design, now used in nearly every vessel of this type, and this was the last class of it's type in the US Navy to utilize it's kind of power plant.  The vessel I'm looking for is the last of her class to remain in service, and now serves as part of a museum.

your turn ghostrider.

I will vouch for Ghostrider's answer, I always heard the Kidd's being referred to as the Ayatollah class, too. Hardly ever as the Dead Admiral class. Heck, there's so many ships in the USN named for dead admirals that it would be hard to discern which class you were talking about.

That is an american nickname for the Kidds, lol.  Another nickname is the "Dead Admiral" class.

re-read my post.

They are also known as the Ayatollah class, because they were being built for Iran before the revolution.

what is the other american name for the kidd class?

The reason I asked was because you got the last question correctly. It's your turn to ask the next one.

no, just commenting on argentina's twin of the sheffield.

Is this your question for the quiz, ddp?

also did it not sink recently along side a dock in argentina?

Didn't they have to forfeit their payment for their destroyer as compensation?

And to  add to the absurd; Argentinian naval personnel were here, in Barrow, for the launch of HMS Sheffield as the keel for their Type 42 was to be laid less than a week after.

Yes that's it. The other primary target was to be the ARA Veinticinco de Mayo, ne HMS Venerable, ex HNLMS Karel Doorman (Dutch).

And, just to stretch the ridiculous to the absurd, Hawker Siddeley demonstrated the Harrier GR.1 on board the Mayo as a possible sale to Argentina in 1969.

USS PHOENIX (CL 46)

Renamed GENERAL BELGRANO in 1956

Sunk by the British nuclear attack submarine HMS CONQUEROR (S-48) during the Falklands War on 02 MAY 1982

Oh just answer the question!!!! The surface unit was originally a USN vessel, but at the time of her sinking was flying a foreign flag. The other vessel was in original country of service flag.

In which war? The Falklands, maybe??

What American surface unit was sunk by a British ship?

Thanks, and thanks for the info. My own personal suspicion is that Ron Thunman wore # 21 when he played football at the University of Illinois, but conclusive proof is not yet available. I assure you I will find it, though...

Question soon...

First, you are correct so you get to ask the next question.

GMorrison

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Not a question for the game since I may be wrong with the above, but why do the Seawolfs start over with low numbers?.

Second, (from Navsite);

  Another mistake is the ship’s number, SSN 21. This number was created by Vice Admiral N. Thunman. He said that the submarine for the 21^st century should be named SSN 21. By doing so he made the mistake that every ship’s number can only be given once and the number "21" was already given in 1912.

After that class of boats, the numbering picked back up with SSN-774 USS Virginia, also a lead ship of a new class.

SSN-671 USS Narwhal. One particular innovation, and pardon my lack of technical knowledge, is that the reactor cooling system could have the pumps turned off and work on gravity only.

Not a question for the game since I may be wrong with the above, but why do the Seawolfs start over with low numbers?.

I was gonna offer the USS Skipjack, but the only innovation I could recall on her was her teardrop hull.

Also, I have no followup question if I'm correct.