Ship Trivia Quiz

RickF,

Thanks for the guess, but no, the Dolphin in question was from about 80 years before the Tampico affair.

Another hint: The oficer in question was also credited with winning the US Navy's first action in the Hawaiian Islands, hence the May 11 remembrance.

It appears that this question is going to earn me a barrage of cyber vegetables.

Nobody seems to want to come in on your clues, so I'll have a guess that the "Tampico Affair" is part of the answer? What the connection with Victory is I have no idea.

Rick

hint #3: USS Cyane

hint #4: USS Dolphin

Hmm...  I thought this one would go quickly with all of the Constitution buffs in the forum.

hint #1: May 11th is celebrated annually, by American destroyermen, at a certain port, in honor of this man for his exploits there.

hint#2: Oliver Wendell Holmes got the credit, but this man probably had more to do with saving the Constitution.

runkel wrote:

They were used as survey ships.   Jim

 Prostitutes used as survey ships?? Please elaborate.

They were used as survey ships.

Jim

Yes, the Lady Washington has had several starring roles in movies and TV specials.

Her most famous one was as Captain Jack Sparrow's stolen HMS Interceptor, "fastest ship in the Royal Navy". I crewed on one of the legs on her transit to the Caribbean for filming in 2001.

Check out the POTC I special features for an interview with one of her Captains and footage of her voyage.  

Schoonerbum's latest question is indeed thought-provoking.  But having spent a good deal of time on his last one, only to make a thorough fool of myself (I've been doing that on a fairly regular basis recently), I think I'd better stay away from this one.   I await the answer with great anticipation.

Hi

Ah yes, , , Lady Washington, ,aka U.S.S. Enterprise ! Yes they used the Lady W. as the sailing ship Enterprise in one of the Star Trek movies, where one of the NCC-1701D officers walks the plank. The first of the N.G. crew movies.

SteveH

schoonerbumm wrote:

For the rest of the forum.... A novice helmsman was sometimes required to "box the compass" just before he took the wheel or tiller, meaning recite the 32 points of the compass, forwards and backwards.

Excellent! I was wondering what that meant "box the compass" I am thoroughly enjoying this Thread! I'm learning so much! Thanks guys!

Man I'd love to man the tiller of a great ship one day! 

Lady Washington.  That was me on the tiller... about nine years ago.

 Sweet! I managed to get a Saturday afternoon at the helm of Stephen Taber, while on a week long cruise in September '69. That's one of those things I'll never forget.

Another "around the world" question.

Who do the ships Victory, Constitution, Globe, the Clemson Class...  and the world's oldest profession have in common?

For the rest of the forum....

A novice helmsman was sometimes required to "box the compass" just before he took the wheel or tiller, meaning recite the 32 points of the compass, forwards and backwards.

...."around the world and back"

I was right, it was to simple. Your up schoonerbumm! Bring her up tight, trim sheets, and put a bone in her teeth!

By the way, your avatar, what vessel? 

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...."around the world and back"

  My question is simple, perhaps too simple, but we'll see.

   Can anyone box the compass?
 

Sumpter's up! Charles Darwin is the answer I had in mind.

I just consider myself lucky that there wasn't a Coast Guard vessel named Birch.

By the way, Darwin and Lincoln don't just share the same birth date, they were both born on the same day in 1809.

I'm looking forward to Sumpter's question.

Dr. Tilley's idea to connect the John Birch Society with a Coast Guard class was inspired, but ( I can't resist)... you are both barking up the wrong tree!  :-)

The answer I'm looking for is much more straightforward.

Clue 1: The U.S. Coast Guard wasn't the only organization with a Cherokee Class.

Clue 2: The answer also has something more in common with Abraham Lincoln than just Feb 12.

This is a good one, Schoonerbum.  I thought I was going to find a Cherokee-class tug named "Birch," but no such luck.  Then I thought there might have been a Coast Guard buoy tender with that name (the 180-footers were named after trees), but no such luck.  (There were a couple of smaller tenders named Birch, but so far as I can tell neither of them had any connection with February 12 - or with the Cherokee.  I did find a most interesting article about 180-foot buoy tenders on the CG historian's website, though.)  And I looked up "February 12" on Wikipedia.  It gave me a list of all sorts of people who were born and died on that date (I'm delighted to add the birthday of Joe Garagiola and the death date of Sal Mineo to the knowledge base that was already befogging my senile brain), interesting things that happened on it (e.g., the founding of the oldest opera house in Europe and the launching of a Soviet spacecraft bound for Venus - I wonder if it ever got there), etc. - but nothing that jumped out at me as being related to right wing American politics.

So far, ya got me.  I suspect you've concocted something really diabolical here.  Be warned:  it may provoke the throwing of as many cyber-vegetables as my last question did.

OK... we have an anniversary coming up next week. 

What do the Cherokee Class, February 12 and American Right Wing Politics have in common?

Nope, keep trying.