Ship Trivia Quiz

Greek battleships Kilkis ( the former Mississippi (BB-23)) and Lemnos (ex-Idaho (BB-24)). Sunk in the basin of the Greek naval base at Salamis after they were hit by German air attacks on 23 April 1941

Dang it!  I left something out in my question.  I meant to ask for the "FIRST battleship sunk...etc"

My bad.  Your answers are correct, I guess, since my question was mistyped.  I was looking for the Italian ship Roma.

Over, to you ddp59.

I was actually going to answer that with the Italian battleship Roma since you did mention "guided" bombs, not unguided. Cool. I'll be watching for ddp59's next question. It should be a good one; he always comes up with some quality questions.

Duke Maddog, you go as i missed the "guided" part tho i would have had it on the "roma"

Okay, give me time to find something.

Okay, here's one:

This ship was the subject of an Arthur Conan Doyle Sherlock Holmes episode, which was later reported as Fact by the newspapers of the day. Who was she and what had happened?

SS Mayumba, destroyed by fire.

No, looking for the original ship that was used in Arthur Conan Doyle's story.

Keep trying.

Any guesses so far? I'll let this run a couple days more and then drop a hint.

The Mary Celeste was discovered under sail and entirely abandoned.

You got it Subfixer, it's all yours.

All righty then.

This class of ship requires a special type of crewman and an abnormally large supply of fresh water. What is this type of ship?

I'm not looking for a fishing vessel.

steamship & engineer. the land equivalent is stationary engineer that runs a boiler plant.

Nope! This is a type of ship that transports a certain type of cargo, sorry about the vague question.

Could it be a Livestock Carrier. The crew are bascially Wranglers and the Fresh Water is needed to feed the Livestock,,,,,,,Cheers Mark

Livestock carrier it is, surfsup. Stockmen make up a major part of the crew and water is a main concern. I hate to think how bad one of these ships must smell. I am living in Smithfield, Virginia, home of the famous hams. When a pig truck goes down the road, you don't want to be behind it.

Question is yours, surfsup.

A livestock carrier:

Oh man, that is one ugly ship! Condos for cows! Yeah, I don't think I'd want to work on one of those...

OK here we go. One Allied Country during WW2 had 3 Sister Ships serving in their Navy. One was sunk by the Japanese, One by the Germans and one survuved the War. What were the names of those Ships...???

Chirp.....Chirp.....Chirp.....The Crickets are back.

australian modified leander(sydney) class, perth sunk by japanese, sydney sunk by the german raider kormoran & hobart scrapped in japan after the war.

You have it. Over to you for the next one.

what 3 ships collided with something in ww2 & only 1 survived? what are their names?

OK all I could find was the following. HMS Highlander ( Destroyer), survived while the Whaler Shera and the Armed Trawler Daneman both were lost. All 3 collided with what is termed Sea Ice.

nope. hint: east coast of newfoundland.

I believe you are looking for the USS Truxtun, USS Pollux and USS Wilkes.  Pollux was a US supply ship, Truxtun was an old "four piper" destroyer, and Wilkes was a newer Gleaves class destroyer.  They were sailing together to Argentia, Newfoundland in February 1942.  The seas were rough and the weather was poor due to a storm.  Visibility was down to zero.  The three ships all ran aground within 2 miles of each other near the Newfoundland town of Lawn.  Wilkes was able to shift cargo and weight aft, and lightened the bow enough that she came up off the rocks on her own, but Pollux and Truxtun were both lost.  In both cases, the crews abandoned ship and tried to make their way to land.  In the process, 110 men from Truxtun and 93 men from Pollux died.  

correct. got that from the book "tin cans". your turn.

OK.....

Most ships can only do this one time, but one ship did it three times.  This ship was built for two purposes at the same time.  Name the ship, and for bonus points, name the circumstances surrounding the "three times".

Could it have been the Hunley as she sank 3 Times.

to attack the union ships blockading confederate ports. 3rd time was the charm as sank union ship but was still sunk.

no, the Hunley was a warship, and nothing more.  This ship was designed from the outset to perform two different tasks.  Also, the "three times" I am referring to all happened before the ship's maiden voyage took place....