dougb@prism.CS.ORST.EDU (Douglas Boom) (05/07/91)
From: dougb@prism.CS.ORST.EDU (Douglas Boom) Here is the answers to the last quiz. The amount of replies was low compared to the first and several people scored near perfect. As every one suggested I have put the questions first then the answers. 1. Name the only Battleship ever to torpedo another battleship. HMS Rodney torpedoed the Bismarck during there battle. The Torpedoes had little results (the Britsh said they hit, but the Germans said it was the scuttling charges going off) 2. What was the propulsion system for the submarine CSS Hunley? Eight very brave (or stupid) men. 3. What happened to the German High fleet after the end of World War One? (A majority, not the couple that survived until WW2) Scuttled at Scapa flow. The British placed the ships in strategic (ie, anti-sub) positions then scuttled them. 4. Name the German ships involved in the Battle of Coronel.(in WW1) Scharnhorst, Gneisenau, Lepzig, Numberg, Dresden 5. Every knows about the four Iowas that are around today but what where the names of the other two that did not get spared? (Hint: the four still around are the Wisconsin, New Jersey, Missouri, and Iowa) Illinois, Kentucky 6. Name any of the proposed Montana class battleship (besides the Montana!) New Hampshire, Ohio, Maine, Louisiana (not in any order) 7. Name the largest plane to land on an aircraft carrier without using a arresting hook? (It took off with out using the catapult either!) C-130 Hercules (saw the footage on WINGS!. very impressive) 8. The General Belgrano was at Pearl Harbor on Dec 7,1941, what was its name then? USS Phoenix 9. After its duel with the Bismarck, the crew onboard the King George V found what unusual item on board? An unexploded 15inch shell. (They found it the center of the boat by a bulkhead) 10. What happened to the HMS Courageous class battleships? Converted to Aircraft carriers. 11. Name another ship in the HMS Hood class. HMS Anson, HMS Howe, and HMS Rodney. All three were cancelled. 12. What was the code name for the "channel dash" by the Scharnhorst, Gneisenau, and Prinz Eugen? Operation Cerberus (the three headed dog that guards hell) 13. What was the original name of the CV-16 USS Lexington? USS Cabot 14. What country did Argentina get her aircraft carriers from? The United Kingdom through other parties but the ships were built by the Brits. (Argentina also received two HMS Sheffield class frigates before the war) 15. How many Yamato class battleships were either completed or under construction at the beginning of WW2? Four, the Yamato, Musashi and Shinano, and a hull (Number 111) which was scrapped in 1943 while only 30% complete. 16. Name the Italian Aircraft carrier built from the passenger liner Roma during WW2? Aquila (it was impounded by the Germans and never completely fitted out) 17. What was the name of BB-1? USS Indiana 18. What was the hull designator of the USS Alaska? CB-1 (more fire to the Alaska:battlecruiser or large CA?) 19. What was the fate of the USS Saratoga (CV-3)? She was sunk during the Bikini Atoll tests. She was a credit to her builders, she took two blasts to sink. 20. Where did the guns from HMS Glorious and HMS Courageous finally end up? On board HMS Vanguard. That's all folks, as usual, please mail all responses to me, not the moderator Doug AKA Douglas Boom dougb@prism.cs.orst.edu Special thanks to Hal Heydt for question 8.
swilliam@oasys.dt.navy.mil (Steve Williams) (05/09/91)
From: swilliam@oasys.dt.navy.mil (Steve Williams) >From: dougb@prism.CS.ORST.EDU (Douglas Boom) >Here is the answers to the last quiz... >2. What was the propulsion system for the submarine CSS Hunley? > Eight very brave (or stupid) men. ^^^^^^ You should be careful of whom you call stupid. Especially those who died for their country. Did these men volunteer for this dangerous mission, or were they ordered to carry out it? As I remember, when the Confederate ironclad, CSS VIRGINIA (well known as the MERRIMACK) was nearing completion, the CSA Navy asked for volunteers to man her guns. No one volunteered. Eventually, the CSA Navy ordered Army artillery crews to serve on the VIRGINIA. Obviously, you can't call these men stupid. Who knows, it might have been the same case with the HUNLEY. Also, as I remember, CSS HUNLEY wasn't the first submarine in the CSA Navy. There was an earlier CSA submarine, but as it prepared to leave the port, a steamboat passed by the submarine. The steamboat's wakes caused the submarine to capsize, drowning everyone inside the submarine hull - I think that only one man (commander) at the top hatch escaped. CSS HUNLEY was the first submarine to make a successful attack on a surface ship. HUNLEY "stabbed" a Federal wooden ship with a pole; the explosive was attached to the pole. HUNLEY was to back out, letting out the rope that was attached to the explosive. When the HUNLEY was a certain distance from the ship, the rope would be yanked, causing the explosive to be detonated. Unfortunately, as the HUNLEY backed from the ship, the rope apparently got tangled up, causing the explosive to be detonated prematurely. Both the ship and the submarine were destroyed.
stoffel@dtoa3.dt.navy.mil (William Stoffel) (05/14/91)
From: stoffel@dtoa3.dt.navy.mil (William Stoffel) >From: swilliam@oasys.dt.navy.mil (Steve Williams) >> Eight very brave (or stupid) men. > ^^^^^^ >You should be careful of whom you call stupid. Especially those who >died for their country. Did these men volunteer for this dangerous >mission, or were they ordered to carry out it? The CSS H.L. HUNLEY actually sunk 3 times. The first time she was accidently pulled over by a steamer with the loss of 6 men (of 9). The second time she suffered some kind of a seal loss and sunk during a practice mission with the loss of all hands (including Mr. H. L. Hunley who had assumed command after the first accident). The 3rd time she went down with the USS HOUSATONIC, which she had "torpedoed" off of Charleston on 17 Feb. 1864. There were again no survivors from the HUNLEY. ALL of the men who died in the HUNLEY were volunteers. >Also, as I remember, CSS HUNLEY wasn't the first submarine in the CSA You're probably thinking of the CSS DAVID which also operated out of Charleston prior to the HUNLEY. She was not a true submarine, but was a small cigar shaped steam powered boat using a spar mounted torpedo. >Navy. There was an earlier CSA submarine, but as it prepared to leave >the port, a steamboat passed by the submarine. The steamboat's wakes >caused the submarine to capsize, drowning everyone inside the submarine >hull - I think that only one man (commander) at the top hatch escaped. This incident sounds more like the 1st of HUNLEY's 3 sinkings. >CSS HUNLEY was the first submarine to make a successful attack on a >surface ship. HUNLEY "stabbed" a Federal wooden ship with a pole; the >explosive was attached to the pole. HUNLEY was to back out, letting [balance of weapon system description deleted] The DAVID's "torpedo" used a contact exploder. I've heard that the same design was used by HUNLEY. I don't believe the exact cause of her 3rd and final loss was ever determined with certainty. - Bill