WARSHIP QUIZ

Forget the last answer it typed. I think i got it.

The number 111 is called a nelson after Admiral Nelson, who allegedly only had "One Eye, One Arm, One Ball" near the end of his life

 

"One Arm, One Eye, One Ambition" (to destroy the French)

You must have been confusing Admiral Nelson with Colonel Bogey!

Well done, Quillin! Over to you

Tom

 

Okay, slowly getting back to the warships, with a small detour.

"What is so special about Admiral Nimitz ring of Annapolis?"

 

Needed to get to a biography for this one:

It saved him from losing his finger when he had an accident with a Diesel Engine

Tom

 

correct

If you read the biography, then you probably have read that he studied diesel engins in Genth. Yep, Nimitz rules :smok:

 

OK, an easy one, and a bit of poetry:

"Let her tell you, as she lies there, of her blooding long ago,
In the mist that mingles Jutland with the might of Scapa Flow

Let her tell you too of Narvik, with its snowy cliffs, and then
of Matapan, Salerno, and the shoals of Walcheren

And finally of Malta, where along the purple street,
came in trail the Roman navy, to surrender at her feet"

Who was she, and where did she lie (line 1)?

Tom

 

I guess HMS Warspite and the place is Mounts Bay where she was broken up.

 

Close enough!
HMS Warspite in Marazion Cove, where she was finally broken up

 

It was guess. she was the only big warship, apart from CV furious, to be at Narvik.And i know that she was present at the landings at Salerna and a couple days later the Italian fleet sialed out to surrender.
And now the hard part, finding a new question. Nothing pops up diriectly so i'll post it later

 

And here is the question. Who served in the US Navy for 58 years? (I'm looking for a person of the 20 century, in case there might be more persons but i doubt it)

 

Small hint, he got the Medal of Honour

 

10 days and still nobody founded the man i am looking for (or should i say, the man you are looking for )
Small hint, In order to get the Medal of Honour, it involved Douglass McArthur.

 

That's a good question. I have no idea who it is.

 

John Bulkeley, commander of the PT that took MacArthur to Mindanao?

 

Correct.
man, that took some time. I bet that without the McArthur hint it would have taken longer.
Next question is yours canambridge

 

Come on Canambridge

 

Nobody, okay, i'll jump in. Yesterday i saw "Titanic" (all spoken in french, funny how they speak american names)
Anyway, here's the question:
What have the Japanese supercarrier Shinano and the Titanic in common? (Apart of beeing the biggist in their class at the time and sinking on the first voyage)

 

Just a guess.They have the same number of boilers?

 

In both cases, they first thought that damages were insignificant and pose no danger to the ship?

 

nope and nope (it has indeed something to do with the sinking and the prevention of the flooded compartements)

Sturmtiger: what the hell, they had the same number of boilers. wow, something i didn't know