Ship Trivia Quiz

Oh just answer the question!!!! The surface unit was originally a USN vessel, but at the time of her sinking was flying a foreign flag. The other vessel was in original country of service flag.

USS PHOENIX (CL 46)

Renamed GENERAL BELGRANO in 1956

Sunk by the British nuclear attack submarine HMS CONQUEROR (S-48) during the Falklands War on 02 MAY 1982

Yes that's it. The other primary target was to be the ARA Veinticinco de Mayo, ne HMS Venerable, ex HNLMS Karel Doorman (Dutch).

And, just to stretch the ridiculous to the absurd, Hawker Siddeley demonstrated the Harrier GR.1 on board the Mayo as a possible sale to Argentina in 1969.

And to  add to the absurd; Argentinian naval personnel were here, in Barrow, for the launch of HMS Sheffield as the keel for their Type 42 was to be laid less than a week after.

Didn't they have to forfeit their payment for their destroyer as compensation?

also did it not sink recently along side a dock in argentina?

Is this your question for the quiz, ddp?

no, just commenting on argentina's twin of the sheffield.

The reason I asked was because you got the last question correctly. It's your turn to ask the next one.

what is the other american name for the kidd class?

They are also known as the Ayatollah class, because they were being built for Iran before the revolution.

re-read my post.

That is an american nickname for the Kidds, lol.  Another nickname is the "Dead Admiral" class.

I will vouch for Ghostrider's answer, I always heard the Kidd's being referred to as the Ayatollah class, too. Hardly ever as the Dead Admiral class. Heck, there's so many ships in the USN named for dead admirals that it would be hard to discern which class you were talking about.

your turn ghostrider.

Ok.

This vessel was part of the first full production class to integrate a revolutionary new design, now used in nearly every vessel of this type, and this was the last class of it's type in the US Navy to utilize it's kind of power plant.  The vessel I'm looking for is the last of her class to remain in service, and now serves as part of a museum.

USS Ranger CV-61. AKA the bridge killer.

First class of US carriers to fully adopt the angled deck.

Last class of US carriers to use fuel oil boiler/ turbine power.

Not sure though about the museum. I understand she is waiting for the torch.

Nope,

Ranger was going to be a museum, in fact the proposed site wasn't far from where I live, but that doesn't look like it's going to happen.

Also, unless I'm mistaken, the Kitty Hawk class (technically the JFK subclass) are the last carriers to be built with boilers, not the Forrestals.

Keep guessing.

Think smaller.

This design change is equally as revolutionary for this classes type as the angled deck was for carriers.

skipjack submarine?

nope, you're getting warmer though

USS Seawolf SSN-575 had a liquid sodium cooled reactor until it was replace by a pressurized water reactor.

the original Seawolf was a one off, not a class ship, this class's powerplant was a much more common design.

Let me rephrase one of the clues, this class was the first non-experimental vessels to utilize a major design feature, one not present in the Seawolf design.

I believe youre looking for the USS Bluejack--SS-581.  She was the second of three Barbel class subs, launched in 1959 and decommissioned in 1990.  She was the last of the Barbel class to be decommissioned.....Bonefish was decommissioned in 1988 after a fire, and Barbel was decommissioned in 1989.  

The Barbel class was the last class of US subs to be built with diesel-electric propulsion.  They were also the first production submarines to be built with the round "teardrop" hull that just about every military submarine in the world today uses.  The hull designs previously had focused on performance on the surface, while this teardrop design allowed for better speed and quieter performance while submerged.  It also allowed the entire bow of the sub to be used to house the main sonar array.

Sorry, I mean the Blueback, not Bluejack.  The Blueback is currently on exhibit at the Oregon Museum of Science and Industry, on the Willamette River in Portland.

You got it!

Your turn F-8fanatic

OK, sorry for the delay.  Should be an easy one.

Amphibious landing operations are well known.  But in one particular such operation, no dedicated troop ships or specialized landing craft were used.  The troops were transported aboard the warships that would normally provide gun support in such an operation.  Name the three main participating ships.

Which war and what theater? At least give us something to go on.

The first troops to land were two companies of each of the 9th, 10th and 11th Battalions of the Australian 3rd Brigade. The companies embarked from three Formidable-class battleships; HMS Queen, HMS London and HMS Prince of Wales. Each battleship dispatched four steamboats towing three row boats (launches and pinnaces)—a total of 48 boats.

en.wikipedia.org/.../Landing_at_Anzac_Cove

No, it wasnt Anzac Cove--that operation did rely upon standard transport ships, such as the transport Galeka.  The operation I am referring to took place in a later war, and relied solely upon two groups of warships--no troop transports at all.  I am looking for the three main ships used in this operation.  Incidentally, the three main ships were supported by no less than fourteen smaller warships.

The 14 smaller warships were all destroyers....