Ship Trivia Quiz

Thank you!

While I am thinking of a question, what does your emblem mean?  I haved been wondering about that for a while.  It is obviously a CG racing stripe, but neither I nor either of my 2 Coast Guard member sons can figure out what it means.

Semper Paratus!

oceano75

Thank you!

While I am thinking of a question, what does your emblem mean?  I haved been wondering about that for a while.  It is obviously a CG racing stripe, but neither I nor either of my 2 Coast Guard member sons can figure out what it means.

Semper Paratus!

Once upon a time, a long time ago, I was privileged to be part of a brand new unit in the USCG (TACLET/LEDET). In short time we became the closest thing the CG had to a SWAT team.  One of our admin staff members who hailed from NY, an ex-cop, had a pin of the "Thin Blue Line 1*"; he said they called it "One Ass-to-risk.

Somewhere,  someone, modified the pin with the CG stripes.  The pin was then adopted as our own (I heard it was done with permission, but i doubt it).

The new logo still meant "the thin blue line" and the ONE Asterisk applied more than ever given the nature of our job.  

Anyway, thats the meaning of my avatar.

Thanks for the explanation.  My sons and I have (of course) heard of LEDETs.  But none of us had ever seen the patch.

Ok the question...

An easy one for those familiar with the quirks of USCG history and an eye opener for those who think the USCG never goes beyond the 12 mile limit...

What Cold War mission was performed by a Coast Guard Cutter from 1952 to 1964, what was the name of the Cutter and where was she stationed?

Good luck!

Semper Paratus!

Good one!  I've been looking for a model kit of that vessel.  I love how she looked in white and CG stripes. 

I'll let someone else answer your question though.

USCG cutter Courier, call sign "Vagabond-A". She was stationed at Rhodes from 1952 to 1964. She transmitted US propaganda via "Voice of America" using a 900 foot antenna held aloft by a balloon. That would have been a sweet posting.

She was decommissioned for good in 1972.

She was launched as M/V Coastal Messenger in 1945 as a standard C1-M-AV1 design cargo ship for the US Maritime Commission. The only model I could find of a C1-M is made by Loose Cannon in 1/700. It looks good, although all that photo etch the builder used was from another source.

That would be a good project.

You got it Bondo - well done.

Loose Cannon makes the C1-M and Battle Fleet Models makes the barrage ballons.  That is a diorama that is on my to-do list in the very near future.

Over to you, sir.

isn't that the fastest steam engined train in england if not the world?

How did that get on a ship link ? That's a Pennsylvania RR GG-1 Electric locomotive. My granddad used to drive one .

ddp59

isn't that the fastest steam engined train in england if not the world?

flyguy

How did that get on a ship link ? That's a Pennsylvania RR GG-1 Electric locomotive. My granddad used to drive one .

bondoman

I'll take a stab and say that Raymond Loewy, designer of the GG1's graceful carbody also designed the CG's emblem.

                                                                                                              Pat. 

Correct. Raymond Loewy, Like Henry Dreyfuss, Norman Bel Geddes and Ferdinand Porsche; masters of the craft of uniting form and function.

The USCG hired Loewy to design the Reliance Class cutter interiors, the crew accommodations and what is now called the "brand".

Just as Irving Morrow "styled" the Golden Gate Bridge.

Nice shot of Loewy on the "Green Monster" 6-4-4-6 duplex drive passenger locomotive (I know trains way better than I know ships!).

The qustion:  This class of ships is comprised of what some call two diametrically opposed designs, one of them built and designed in the US midwest.  Name the class and the name of the midwest launched ship.

                                                                            Pat.

I am reviving the trivia quiz with this 4 part question:

1) What was the first capital ship sunk by motor torpedo boats and when?

2) Name the attacking vessels?

3) What was the first achieved by this class of capital ship?

4) What other action (non military) occured in association with this event?

Mike T.

A small quibble Mike. You call this a 4 part question. I call it 4 questions.

However,the Italian MAS !5 sunk the Austrian battleship Szent Istvam in WW1. I don't know the answers to 3 & 4.

Rich,

To get the Trivia thread moving again, I throw in the answers to the other two questions, especially since you got the main two. The date being 10 June, 1918.

The Szent Istvan (St. Stephen) was the newest battleship in the Austro-Hungarian Navy being bulit in 1914. It was the first capital ship to have triple gun turrets.

Also, its the only capital ship that was filmed sinking in WWI. see the video below

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hWO-AUI8HDE&feature=related

Off to you

Mike T.

What naval vessel was never operatiional in any ocean, but still was sunk by the aircraft of a combatant who was not at war with this ship's country. 

Feel free to add the time and place.

USS Panay (PR–5) of the United States Navy was a river gunboat that served on the Yangtze Patrol in China until sunk by Japanese aircraft on 12 December 1937 on the Yangtze River.

Tom, I wonder if you and I are the only ones old enough to remember that.

Over to you.

Rich

Tom, I wonder if you and I are the only ones old enough to remember that.

Over to you.

    If you think that’s old, have I got one for you… The first large double-hulled ship was designed to have a feature that turned out to be so incredibly unworkable that most people don’t even know it was tried.

1. What was the ship? [sufficient to win this round]                    Hint: The designer called her “Babe”.
   
2. What was the feature? [extra credit]                                    Hint: Why build the first double-hulled ship?
3. Why was it a remarkably BAD idea? [for bragging rights]  Hint: “Laws of Physics” is NOT an acceptable answer.

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I’m surprised no one jumped on the obvious clue, so I’ll give this excessively tortured one: This Kingdom wasn’t all that “peaceable”.

Rich

Tom, I wonder if you and I are the only ones old enough to remember that.

Over to you.

I'm not that old, but I do remember that attack on the Panay. I went to answer it and found it already answered. That is cool, I'm looking forward to the answers on the next one.

This thread has lain fallow for 48 hours. Somebody here has to have read of “Isambard Kingdom Brunel”.

AgentG, you’re one for three. (Sufficient, but no bragging.) You’re next up for posing the next puzzle. Congrats.

Details: I asked, “The first large double-hulled ship was designed to have a feature that turned out to be so incredibly unworkable that most people don’t even know it was tried.”

The Great Eastern’s unworkable feature was an anti-seasick internal rocking mechanism (the original reason for the double-hull). It was intended that the inhabited portions of the internal lower decks would be allowed to rock port & starboard opposite the roll of the sea.

This design failed because instead of calming seasickness, it amplified it. Brunel solved the problem by locking in place the hinges that ran above the keel between the two hulls. All the money spent fabricating this misbegotten “feature” was, of course, sunk without a trace.

Finally one I can answer!!

1. USS Chicago

2. Not sure - I can see that her air intercept controllers directed CAP onto 14 mig kills and she shot down one herself.

3. 96 miles

Paul

Which warship belonged to one country when she was laid down, a second when she was launched and actually entered service with a third?

HMS Agincourt (1913)  Brazil to Turkey to England. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Agincourt_(1913)

Correct!

Over to you.

what is unusual about HMS Agincourt ?

The battleship? Well, she had slit trench heads.