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Ships & Maritime History Flashcards

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Which historic U.S. Navy frigate is nicknamed "Old Ironsides"?: USS Constitution
For which trade was the famous clipper ship Cutty Sark originally built?: China tea trade
On which battleship was Japan's formal surrender signed on September 2, 1945?: USS Missouri
Which ship served as Admiral Horatio Nelson's flagship at the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805?: HMS Victory
Which vessel carried James Cook on his famous 1768-1771 Pacific voyage?: HMB Endeavour
Which two ironclad warships fought each other at Hampton Roads in March 1862?: USS Monitor and CSS Virginia
Why is HMS Dreadnought, completed in 1906, considered revolutionary in battleship history?: It combined ten 12-inch guns with steam-turbine propulsion
In which year did the Tudor warship Mary Rose sink during the Battle of the Solent?: 1545
What material formed the main structure of Thor Heyerdahl's Kon-Tiki raft during its 1947 Pacific voyage?: Balsa wood
What happened to the Swedish warship Vasa on its maiden voyage in 1628?: It sank in Stockholm harbour
Which ship became the world's first nuclear-powered submarine?: USS Nautilus
In 1958, USS Nautilus became the first ship to reach which geographic location while submerged?: North Pole
Which ship was converted from the collier USS Jupiter to become the U.S. Navy's first aircraft carrier?: USS Langley
Which U.S. Navy submarine, commissioned in 1900, was the Navy's first commissioned submarine?: USS Holland
How many battleships formed the main force of the U.S. Navy's Great White Fleet when its world cruise began in 1907?: 16
Which battleship served as the flagship of the Great White Fleet when it departed Hampton Roads in 1907?: USS Connecticut
Which U.S. battleship exploded and sank in Havana Harbor on February 15, 1898?: USS Maine
Which ship was Commodore George Dewey's flagship at the Battle of Manila Bay in 1898?: USS Olympia
Which Confederate commerce raider was sunk by USS Kearsarge off Cherbourg, France, in 1864?: CSS Alabama
Which American ship commanded by John Paul Jones captured HMS Serapis in 1779?: Bonhomme Richard
Which submarine became the first to sink an enemy warship in combat when it attacked USS Housatonic in 1864?: CSS H. L. Hunley
Which ship was Oliver Hazard Perry's original flagship during the Battle of Lake Erie in 1813?: USS Lawrence
Which British frigate captured USS Chesapeake near Boston in 1813?: HMS Shannon
Which British warship was defeated by USS Constitution on August 19, 1812?: HMS Guerriere
Which American sloop-of-war captured HMS Frolic in October 1812?: USS Wasp
Which aircraft carrier launched the B-25 bombers of the Doolittle Raid in April 1942?: USS Hornet
Which U.S. aircraft carrier was lost after suffering severe damage at the Battle of the Coral Sea in May 1942?: USS Lexington
Which U.S. aircraft carrier was severely damaged at the Battle of Midway and later sank after a Japanese submarine attack?: USS Yorktown
Which U.S. aircraft carrier earned 20 battle stars during World War II, more than any other American warship in that conflict?: USS Enterprise
Which U.S. cruiser delivered atomic-bomb components to Tinian shortly before being sunk in July 1945?: USS Indianapolis