Ship Trivia Quiz

Whose navy does this jack belong to?

Mexico, we have to much time on our hands today.

Jim

Sorry Subfixer, but:

The British ship SV Tenacious is a recently constructed wooden ship and is specially designed to accommodate the disabled. It is 65 metres (213.25 feet) long, including bowsprit. Its deck is 49.85 metres long, and its hull is 54.02 metres long, and it has a beam of 10.6 metres at its widest point. A press release from the Belfast Maritime Festival on June 22, 2006 announced that the SV Tenacious was the "world's largest wooden ship still afloat".

http://www.jst.org.uk/frames/index.php?pages=page1041

She's a bit bigger than Discovery - and 100 years younger.

Rick

Not me, friends. Although I thought I knew the right answer, I refrained from posting, so as to give a new contender a chance. Go ahead, Runkel.

Have you had a look at "Tenacious"? She is a superb ship.

Rick

RickF

You had the correct anwser. Please go ahead and ask the next question. I just got to work and don't have one ready yet. By the way I read this every day but don't post very much I forgot my login name.

Jim

OK, then Jim, an easy quicky.....

What was the name of the first ship be built with a gun turret?

Rick

Thanks RickF

I'll guess the HMS WARRIOR but every thing looks like the Monitor. Out of work now and can't play till Monday.

Jim

No, not "Warrior", which had no turrets, nor "Monitor", which was fitted with Ericsson's inferior turret design.

Rick

I think that the first operational revolving turret was mounted on Cowper Cole's Lady Nancy, used against the Russians during the Crimean war, attacking coastal batteries in 1855.  But it might be a stretch to consider Lady Nancy as a ship. Cole's ideas were incorporated into HMS Royal Sovereign, launched in 1857.... but not completed until 1864.

RickF

Is this what you are looking for "The first iron turreted ship of the Royal Navy to be built from keel up was HMS Prince Albert completed February 23, 1866." From Steelnavy.com

 Jim

Sorry for not replying earlier, but I've been away for the weekend.

You are right with Coles, but wrong with the "Lady Nancy" which, as you say, was an adaptation. The ship in question was not built for the Royal Navy.

Rick

There was Trusty in the late 1850's, on which Coles placed an armored turret for the Admiralty after his return from the Crimea for test purposes, again an adaptation of a floating battery, not a true 'ship'.

Cole's Rolf Krake, Europe's first turreted vessel, a gunboat built for the Danish Navy, wasn't finished until after the Monitor - Virginia battle.  The South American vessels didn't happen until the 1864/65 time frame.

Other than these, I'm lost.

Schoonerbumm, 

"Rolf Krake", according to The Guinness History of Sea Warfare, was "completed in 1863, a development of the raft he built in 1855 and named Lady Nancy .... Although the Rolf Krake thus preceded the Monitor, the latter's armament ..... was superior to the Dane's four 68-pdrs."

That is what I based my question on. I guess there could be a discussion over laid down, launch and completion dates and I may be wrong, but you gave the answer I was looking for. The ball is with you!

Rick

Here we go... 

Name the oldest active destroyer (DD) in the US Navy at the end of the Second World War.

That's the one.

Last of the  six Sampson class DDs. Approved in 1914, launched in 1916, Allen was the only pre-World War I destroyer in the Navy at the end of WWII. Got a battle star for Pearl Harbor and spent the war patroling Hawaiian waters.

billydelawder is up again.

Ok Next Q: What was the last ship to be present at Pearl  Harbor to be lost in Battle? 

Hint:  It wasn't during WW2, and not while it was US Property. 

HMS Warspite agains the Italian BB Guilio at over 26,000 yards at Calabria!

John

Ok here is a hint:

 This ship is also the oldest steel warship afloat in the world today!

 John

You are correct Sir!  No worries on it being "too easy"....remember that it's _always_ easy when you know the answer!  :-)

Over to you!

 John