I will go with "this one, that one, those two, and this one also" In the future, please try to refrain from asking individual- or club-specific questions. It's not fair for the rest of us.
Uh oh... was it these ones? Or was it them? IIRC it was listed somewhere between HMS Africa and SMS Zrinyi.
Hijacking the trivia, since the last asker didn't exactly play nice... What was the only US carrier lost to enemy action in the Atlantic?
USS Block Island torpedoed by U549 5-29-44. Took you guys long enough to get back to real trivia, I thought it would happen right away. The USA named their BBs after states, BCs after territories, CA & CLs after cities, DDs after people, subs after fish. CVs & CVEs were named after battles, but a few of them were named after bugs. Why?
Wasp and Hornet were the names of the first two ships in the Continental Navy. Ken, Block Island is right, you're up.
Ok, here is another bit of trivia. Which US Navy ships would lower their flag for morning colors and raise their flag for evening colors? What happen to them?
Sounds like the two airships, Acron and another (can't recall the name). Both eventually crashed in the interwar period. One had no lives lost in the crash, don't remember about the other one. One or both of them was also capable of carrying fighters. The famous hangar at Moffet Airfield, near where I grew up, was made for one of them.
You are correct, the other zeppelin was the USS Macon (ZRS-5). She crashed near Big Sur. I believe the wreckage site is still part of the National Historic Registry.
It helps that I am quite familiar with Hangar One at Moffet Field, which was made specifically to house the Macon. USS Seawolf was unlike any other US submarine before or after in one critical area. What was so unique about the Seawolf compared to the rest of the US Navy? How is she similar to several Russian submarines? And who can find the pun I made (hint hint)?
Whee!! Reactivity balance equations! They say that every hour spent in the Rickover Center, you lose just a bit more of your soul, and get just a bit loonier... That is correct Darren. In particular, she was equipped with a S2G to compare liquid sodium cooled reactors to the pressurized water reactors that became the standard. It was eventually replaced with the spare S2Wa that was built for the Nautilus. You're up.
Ok, an easy one. What timber was used for the decks of the Nelson-class BB's, and why, what was it replaced with, and why?
The inital decks were made of fir planks. The decks were meant to help save weight to help meet the accords of the Washington Treaty. The decks were ultimately replaced because convetional thinking did not believe that the ship could fire a full broadside without doing structural damage to the decks. So the fir planks were replaced with teak planks.
