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Ten super easy questions about naval history. I'll post the answers Friday. But I'll grade as convenience permits.

1) The first naval battle for which an account exists.

2) The only time a naval action has contributed directly to the downfall of a civilisation.

3) The last major battle which was fought almost exclusively under oar.

4) This American Revolutionary War battle led to Cornwallis' surrender.

5) The last major fleet action under sail.

6) The first major fleet action pitching ironclad vs ironclad.

7) The first use of the "modern" locomotive torpedo in action.

8 ) The only battleship to have ever sunk a submarine.

9) The fastest battleship class ever built.

10) The last battleship ever built.

1) Errr... have some ideas... but not sure...
2) Same here, but, I am going to hazard a guess with the siege of Troy.
3) unknown
4) Yorktown (The French blockaded the British from escaping)
5) Shoot, I think I know this, was it in the early American Civil War?
6) Off Hampton Roads, VA, USS Monitor vs. CSS Virginia (Tidbit: Monitor was the first naval vessel to make use of the armored turret, as well)
7) WW1 German Wolfpack operations?
8 ) Unknown
9) British Hood-class? Or ar you considering those to be Heavy Cruisers?
10) USS Missouri, Iowa Class

Oh my, Nathan.
0 out of 10. F
Remember, answers Friday night.

Here goes nothing... I'm shrinking the text so I won't spoil anything if I get it right.


1) The first naval battle for which an account exists.
No clue. I'm guessing either the Phoenicians, or the Chinese...

2) The only time a naval action has contributed directly to the downfall of a civilisation.
Really no clue.

3) The last major battle which was fought almost exclusively under oar.
I'm guessing 1571, when the Spanish and Venetian galley navies defeated the Ottoman navy.

4) This American Revolutionary War battle led to Cornwallis' surrender.
Chesapeake River, between Count de Grasse and Admiral Graves?

5) The last major fleet action under sail.
Before the Civil War, I think...

6) The first major fleet action pitching ironclad vs ironclad.
Hideyoshi invasions, 1592-1598; Korean defenders under Admiral Yi Sun Shin used ironclad galleys...

7) The first use of the "modern" locomotive torpedo in action.
1877, HMS Shah. (The torpedo missed.)

8 ) The only battleship to have ever sunk a submarine.
1915, HMS Dreadnought sank a German sub via ramming.

9) The fastest battleship class ever built.
Iowa-class

10) The last battleship ever built.
USS Wisconsin, Iowa Class

5 out of ten there, Crayz. Still an F, but better.

Well, here I go. I'll follow Crazyz9000's strategy.

1) Battle of Salamis

2) No idea.

3) Battle of Lepanto

4) Yorktown.

5) Battle of Sinop?

6) [i[Major[/i] fleet action? So no Monitor vs. Merrimack/Virginia? I don't know...the battle where US beat the Spanish in the Philipines. Santiago Bay or something.

7) Japanese sneak attack on Port Arthur in the Russo-Japanese War.

Absolutely no clue.
PS. What's with this smily face that won't go away!?!?

9) Iowa class

10) The Russians built some battleships after WWII didn't they? The Kirov or Kursk or something? So, essentially, a no clue.

2 out of 10 for acesand8s. F
The smiley comes from putting 8 and ) together without a space.
Hate giving these low grades when I see quite a few close answers, but I've done poorly before for getting close answers myself. Nyah!

The only one I could conceivably answer is number 2, and my suspicions are more than likely wrong.

4 out of 10 for Sea Skimmer.
F

(edit) I'll give The Great Leader a four and a half

Sorry but 7,8,9 and 10 are correct, and the answer you appear to be using for 6 is incorrect because the Hideyoshi invasions only had ironclads on one side. For 5, nothing later could be called a major fleet action before everyone was using steam.

Ten is NOT correct.

Frank Hipper wrote:Ten is NOT correct.

Yes it is, please name another battleship completed in 1946

Sea Skimmer wrote:

Frank Hipper wrote:Ten is NOT correct.

Yes it is, please name another battleship completed in 1946

Check your PMs.

1) Egyptian Fleet under Ramses III repelling the Sea Peoples.

2) The amphibious operations against Tenochtitlan.

3) Lepanto

4) The Battle of Chesapeake Bay.

5) Navarino

6) Battle of Lissa (or Vis).

7) Russo-Turkish War.

8 ) H.M.S. Dreadnought.

9) Iowa class.

10) H.M.S. Vanguard. (Yes that IS correct.)

Sea Skimmer wrote:Sorry but 7,8,9 and 10 are correct, and the answer you appear to be using for 6 is incorrect because the Hideyoshi invasions only had ironclads on one side. For 5, nothing later could be called a major fleet action before everyone was using steam.

I think he might want a successful use of the whitehead torpedo, that is, where it hit the target. That would be during the Russo-Turkish War. 10, however, is indeed correct, as were Dreadnought and Iowa.

(Question number eight would have to have no correct answer possible if it wasn't Dreadnought, as Dreadnought sank a submarine by ramming in WWI.)

The Duchess of Zeon wrote:
I think he might want a successful use of the whitehead torpedo, that is, where it hit the target. That would be during the Russo-Turkish War. 10, however, is indeed correct, as were Dreadnought and Iowa.

(Question number eight would have to have no correct answer possible if it wasn't Dreadnought, as Dreadnought sank a submarine by ramming in WWI.)

Now that I check up, despite every source saying the Huascar Incident was first it looks like the first Russian torpedo attack may have occurred four days before the Huascar was engaged by Shah

Dreadnought got U-29

Someone's done her homework, 9 out of 10. B

Ten is NOT correct.

I know 10!


Jean Bart

Frank Hipper wrote:Ten is NOT correct.

New Jersey if I remember right.

A blatant clue for those who refuse to look at my answer:

damaged by gunfire from USS Mashachusetts and A/C bombs 1942
completed 1955
took part in Anglo-French operations at Suez
scrapped 1970

Brownie points for anyone who can name at least two vessels involved in #7.

Ted wrote:A blatant clue for those who refuse to look at my answer:

damaged by gunfire from USS Mashachusetts and A/C bombs 1942
completed 1955
took part in Anglo-French operations at Suez
scrapped 1970

She was more then 90% done from 1940, and able to steam and fight at that point. Her delayed "completion" was because the French repaired her, ran trials and then decided to rebuild large parts of the vessel.

Vanguard was laid down later, launched later and had the vast majority of her work done later.

Frank Hipper wrote:Brownie points for anyone who can name at least two vessels involved in #7.

I already have, Peruvian monitor Huascar, British frigate Shah which launched the torpedo, and the British corvette Amethyst fought the action.

Sea Skimmer wrote:

Frank Hipper wrote:Brownie points for anyone who can name at least two vessels involved in #7.

I already have, Peruvian monitor Huascar, British frigate Shah which launched the torpedo, and the British corvette Amethyst fought the action.

But that was on the 29th, who fought on the 25th? (I can't believe somebody actually brought this up)