Ship Trivia Quiz

Don't know a lot about the US Navy, but I'll bet the answer to this is a ship with a unit of measurement hidden somwhere in its name?

Rick

Nope; sorry.

Alumni 72's mind was operating in the correct cosmic zone, but the question was stated in the present tense.  (The Pittsburgh almost certainly did qualify at one point, but she's no longer with us.)

Sit back; relax; close your eyes; work yourself into a tubular, existential frame of mind.  Imbibe of some liquid refreshment and hyperventilate, if necessary.  Let the question wash over the subtler, more sensually-accute nodes of your conscious and subconscious (and maybe even unconscious) being.  You'll get it. 

jtilley

Is this a trick question. How about the USS Constitution  launched Oct 21 1797 and still commissioned today.

Philosophically profound plebes? Wow.  Just ... wow.

Well, I was close - the bow was torn off by a typhoon and towed to Guam.  Making the Pittsburgh the longest ship in the Navy at the time, with her bow in Guam and her stern in the US.

But I'm all about philosophical profundity, so I await the answer with great interest.

I think I remember this from the Revell box.  The USS Pittsburgh?

It's pretty hazy, but the bow was blown off by a torp and replaced in Noumea with a temporary bow, and then the ship sailed to the US and the original severed bow stayed in the Pacific.  Is that anywheres near being right?

subfixer, this will be way to easy for you. 

Name the 3 US ships? 

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That is pretty cool, the biggest seas I've been in are 30ft. but that was on a cruise liner with stabilizers.

David

You got it!  Over to you!

The PT's had their engines mothballed to reduce the risk of fire during transit - this meant that they couldn't fire up the engines to get the compressed air the weapons mounts needed to operate.

They worked around it by cutting the compressed air lines and having one person fire the weapon, another move the mount, while a third acted as a spotter.

 The boats were also _really_ close to the Ramapo's weapons and were subject to a pretty severe beating from the back blast.

 Also while we're on the subject of the Ramapo - while I was looking for "hints", I found this:

http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/watwav.html

112 ft waves - WOW.

John

PTs 27, 29, 30, and 42 were in cradles resting on the Ramapo's deck.

Jim 

I'd like to leave it open for a bit....I can provide some hints that will make this pretty easy for anyone with internet access to figure out....

John

Your on the right track - I was hoping for something a bit more specific though!

 How about the name of the ship?

 :-)

John

At Pearl Harbor PT-27, 29, 30 and 42 went to war with the rest of the US Navy.  What was unusual about their circumstances?

You got it.

David

It was the USS Missouri...

From Wikipedia....

Now the only U.S. battleship in commission, Missouri was proceeding seaward on a training mission from Hampton Roads early on 17 January 1950 when she ran aground 1.6 miles (3.0 km) from Thimble Shoals Light, near Old Point Comfort. She hit shoal water a distance of three ship lengths from the main channel. Lifted some seven feet above waterline, she stuck hard and fast.^[4] Seizing the opportunity to criticize the United States, the Soviet Union ran a story in its naval publication Red Fleet which criticized the grounding of the battleship.^[10] With the aid of tugboats, pontoons, and an incoming tide, she was refloated on 1 February 1950 and repaired shortly thereafter.^[4]

Okay, a REALLY easy one.

Which ship is this, what happened, and when.

David

It was named for:

After the Doolittle Raid, launched from the Hornet, President Roosevelt answered a reporter's question by saying that the raid had come from "Shangri-La", the faraway land of the James Hilton novel Lost Horizon.

David

OK, to expound on the last q:

What exactly was the Shangri-La named for? 

subfixer wrote:

billydelawder wrote: How Bout the Hancock? Nope, sorry. But, after further consideration, I have some misgivings about the hint that I gave above. I am fairly sure, but not 100%  sure, that she was renamed during building so don't use that hint to give you your answer. I'll give a better hint: She wasn't named after a famous statesman, a famous battle, another famous ship, or what might be considered a traditional source for an aircraft carrier. Too easy! But I guess I owe you that.

I have to bump this up after editting for you who might have missed it.