Well done -- Whitey Mack in the USS Lapon tailed a Soviet SSBN for several weeks Your quiz..
EE Lightning: According to Wiki (usual disclaimer) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_Electric_Lightning
Your memory is a lot better than mine! Francis Beaufort was (among other things) captain of HMS Frederickssteen The Beaufort Sea is named...
Excellent, Merlin -- please explain the connections!
Think Cold War, please
You mean SSN 661?
OK: What links the captain of HMS Fredericksteen to the explorer Roald Amundsen, possibly by way of Michael Fish?
Ouch -- Merlin, that was awful, even for you! As your pun-ishment, write out "She was only the admiral's daughter.." 100 times! Back to the...
OMG... what have I started....
Eleanor Thornton, the model for the "winged victory" statue on each RR car, was torpedoed OK, technically the ship she was on was torpedoed,...
Its the guy in Alfted Bester's "The Star's my Destination" Gulliver someone or other, but I don't have access to the book right now btw,...
Close enough, Merlin: Punjab Irregular Frontier Force (I suppose "Members of the above") Got it from Richard Holmes' excellent book "Sahib:...
Damn close, but too late!
"Come back, Vera Lynn, all is forgiven"
I knew it was a ship in one of the ALien films
Interesting thought, but too far west of Suez!
OK, to get this military quiz moving on again, who or what was a piffer?
A place in a Joseph Conrad novel... but I presume you mean the starship in "Alien"?
Management of the Past, i.e. coming to terms with what has happened such as the holocaust
From the depths of the internet.... We all know those cute little computer symbols called "emoticons," where: :) means a smile and :( is...
