Trivia!

It's the firecontrol computer. The contractor fire control system was the Pollen fire control computer, and was superior due to it's ability to account for change of course in the firing ship. This version was installed on the HMS Queen Mary, and helps to account for her better shooting at Jutland before the Derfflinger blew her to kingdom come.

The Admiralty standard was the Dreyer system.

 

AWWW
And I was looking at Breyers, Dreyer, Häagen-Dazs, Swensen's Ice Cream, Bruster's, Dairy Queen, Edy's, Good Humor, and sealtest.

 

Crzyhawk got it. The answer is fire control computer. There is a big discussion going on at the Jutland/Distant Guns forum right now, because apparently the different FCCs are accurately modeled in-game, and their effect on gameplay is... controversial. Some folks say the Pollen clock was better than the Dreyer, others say they were equal. Without building two shiny new WWI battleships and FCCs, and testing them in the North Sea, it's rather hard to prove one way or the other.

You're up, Crzy.

 

You sure no bannanas? Not even one?
I thought that it was good for off the top of my head.
Hmm..ice cream, i here the drumsticks hearing my name, so...whats the next question?

 

I was wondering if there was such a thing as Marconi-sicles.

 

Which American ship was the first to engage an enemy warship with gunfire in WW2, after the official declaration of war?

 

The USS Salt Lake City engaged a submarine on Dec 10-11, 1941. She didn't sink it.
J

 

That's correct! You're up.

 

What was the name of the ship that rendezvous with tanker Altmark southwest of the Canary Islands in late 1939 and where did Altmark get it's fuel oil?
J

 

What was the name of the ship that rendezvoused with the tanker Altmark southwest of the Canary Islands in late 1939 and where did Altmark get it's fuel oil?
J

 

OOPS

 

Graf Spee

 

That's part 1, how about part 2?
J

 

Texas

 

Well done, too easy wasn't it?
J

 

Which American ship was the first to sink a German surface ship in WW2?

 

SS Stephen Hopkins

 

Correct, you're up!

 

Interesting note that the SS Stephen Hopkins went down first with the Stier sinking 2 hours later.

I was in the Gulf of Tonkin. I was built under a Maritime Commission contract. Was one of 5 ships in my class and all of us were named after broads. Oran Algeria was a very popular port for me. Was in the Panama canal when Santa showed up and on lovers day. Torch, Husky, Neptune and Dragoon I took part in. I was 30 years old when I was scrapped in Italy. What ship am I.