Ship Trivia Quiz

hint-  over 250,000,000 copies have been sold.

With that number sold it has to be the battleship in the game of Monopoly

Rick

You are correct sir! We had dinner last Saturday with friends of ours, he has a board game company. He was saying what a lousy game it is since halfway through the results are obvious, and the rest of the game just involves becoming financially ruined.

I'd been a little stumped on what my trivia ? would be , but then it came to me so I did a little reading up. Most likely she is modeled after BB-4 USS Iowa.

Over to you, RickF

A ship laid down in Britain as Independencia was eventually commissioned into the Royal Navy in 1878. She was the first British warship to be fitted with .....what?

Rick

A head?  (or loo) (the kind with actual plumbing, instead of just a hole in the bow)

Well done, Don. HMS Neptune was the first British warship fitted with a bathroom. Her other claim to fame was that while she was being towed to the scrapyard in 1903, she rammed HMS Victory (still afloat as a training ship), collided with HMS Hero and narrowly missed several other ships.

Your go

Rick

Wow - what a guess, eh?  After I hit the Post button I looked up the ship and was sure the correct answer would be torpedo tubes.

A short time out while I come up with a question I didn't think I'd need to ask.

I believe since its been greater than a week, anyone can submit a new question. I'll submit this simple one.

"Which vessel belonging to the US Asiatic fleet during WWII sailed from the Dutch East Indies to Ceylon without the use of its rudder. She was damaged by aerial bombs."

Mike T.

U.S.S. Marblehead  http://www.legendinc.com/Pages/MarbleheadNet/MM/Articles/USSMarblehead.html

That's it  ddp59, she steered by altering the speeds of her propellers until she could get it repaired.

Mike T.

what is the main difference between the tennessee & colorado classes?

Main armament?  Tennessee class had twelve 14inch guns vs. Colorado class' eight 16 inch guns.

                                                                                              Pat.

your turn.

This little craft gave a whole new meaning to the term "flying boat" when it entered sevice in 1968 for the US Navy.

Flagstaff Class Patrol Gunboat (Hydrofoil) http://www.navsource.org/archives/12/1001.htm

Would've settled for that or the Tucumcari.  Over to you sir.

                                                                                       Pat.

1st country & class of ship to mount 16in guns?

US Navy Colorado Class

Britain.

HMS Inflexible was fitted with four muzzle loading RML 16 inch 80 ton guns in 1880.

She was the only ship of her class.

Must be carronades and such from earlier times, mortars etc. but I can't find the exact match. 400 mm would be a search.

thinking more of the 20th century bb.

Bondoman FYI Conway's Steam, Steel and Shellfire lists them as 406.4 mm with a length bore calibre of 18, so unless I screwed up the math, wouldn't that give a length of 24' ? Now that's one hell of a ramrod!

Yep, big gun and rifled to boot.

Japan- Nagato Class. Two battleships- Nagato and Mutsu. Both were completed in 1920-1921, before the Washington Naval Treaty.

yes. your turn.

BB-39 was launched in 1915 but did not serve in Europe during the war. Why ?

"Due to the scarcity of fuel oil in Great Britain during the war, the modern oil fired boilers on the Arizona prevented her from joining the other U.S. battleships serving in the European theater."

source: http://www.pearlharbor.org/history-uss-arizona.asp

Correct- over to you!

What German Submarine has the privilege of being the only one of its kind sunk in the Gulf of Mexico.  More important, what was this sub's mission?

U-166

Mining the mouth of the Mississippi River

Simple enough!  Over to you!

by the way... Semper Paratus!