Naval Quiz

**ChrisV71** · 23 Jan 12,, 17:28

The right answer was posted as I was posting my wrong answer, lol, go figure.

**Admiral Nelson** · 02 Mar 12,, 21:35

Since this has been idle for a while....

????

**RustyBattleship** · 03 Mar 12,, 04:44

Whatever ship that is, that was before hot air dryers were invented and it's laundry day.

**NavyDoc** · 03 Mar 12,, 14:12

Thanks Rusty! I thought it was an earlier form of a staysail!

**tmasi** · 06 Mar 12,, 02:02

French Magenta-class ironclad ?

**Admiral Nelson** · 06 Mar 12,, 02:15

Yes! This one is SOLFERINO. These were the only two decker ironclads ever built. Your question.

**tmasi** · 08 Mar 12,, 02:56

Since you went back to the age of sail, I thought throw this one out there. This vessel is known for two things...

**Brickmuppet** · 08 Mar 12,, 18:48

"This vessel is known for two things..."

Getting sunk by a whale...and cannibalism.

**tmasi** · 09 Mar 12,, 02:23

Ha, ha, great guess!!!! But, no, it's not the Nantucket whaler, Essex. The paintings are not very distinctive (though a source said they're the only representations of this vessel) so I'll give the first hint... it's a U.S. sloop of war and has a link to the first ship with a rotating gun turret.

**NavyDoc** · 09 Mar 12,, 02:56

Constellation would be too easy! So, I'm gonna guess Vincennes.

OK, I should have paid more attention to the second part of that hint!
Would that then be Cumberland? Sunk in the CW by CSS Virginia?

**tmasi** · 09 Mar 12,, 03:18

She's named for a the site of a Revolutionary War battle, but not Vincennes. A little more information... she carried a retractable funnel.

**tmasi** · 10 Mar 12,, 18:22

One more clue... This ship was the first of her kind in the USN and had the same designer as the USS Monitor.

**NavyDoc** · 10 Mar 12,, 20:18

That would make her the Princeton.
Designed by John Erickson.

Who knew we had that many sloops of war! They must have been the destroyers of their time!

**tmasi** · 11 Mar 12,, 05:02

You got it! I know there were a lot of sloops and these pictures make it hard to differentiate one from another. Princeton was the first screw-driven steam ship in the USN. She was also known for playing host to an artillery demonstration where a cannon mis-hap killed several high-ranking cabinet members. President Tyler was spared because he was not in the immediate viscinity of the explosion.

Tyler narrowly escapes death on the USS Princeton — History.com This Day in History — 2/28/1844

It's to you, NavyDoc.

**NavyDoc** · 16 Mar 12,, 05:23

Stole it from another site! It has me a little stumped! So, I'm throwing it in here! I know someone here that can narrow it down!
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