Trivia!

What US warship has an infant listed as one of the bodies interred in its hull?

 

Interred?

 

A sunk warship nearly always has dead aboard. They are considered war graves. being interred, just means that infant is in a "tomb" more or less.

 

Oh I wasnt clearly thinkng when I posted thanks for clearing that up.

 

Anyone knw the answer cause I sure as heck don't.

 

USS Utah.

 

PEARL HARBOR, Hawaii - Nancy Lynne Wagner died three days after she and her twin sister, Mary, were born in 1937.

Her body was cremated and her ashes stayed with her father, Chief Yeoman Albert T.D. Wagner, through tours of duty in China and then aboard the USS Utah at Pearl Harbor as he waited for a Navy chaplain to perform a burial at sea.

When Japanese torpedoes hit the Utah, Wagner escaped - but the baby's ashes remained entombed in the ship, along with the remains of 54 of the Utah's men.

"I've always thought it was an absolute beautiful thing," said Nancy's twin, Mary Kreigh, 64. "I could not have wanted more than to have my sister's ashes guarded by all the men of the U.S. Navy."

 

OK Darren you are up!

 

That's one I'd have never guessed. I figured it was a submarine trying to escape from the Philippines or something of that nature.

 

It was on the Military Channel recently. I did not have time to come up with real hard question.

 

Interesting. I had never heard that tale either.

 

What was the name of the first Japanese naval ship to be sunk by high level bombing in WWII?

 

How about the destroyer Mutsuki sunk by a B-17 on 25 August 1942?

 

Correct!

 

Only two ships that survived the attack on Pearl Harbor are still afloat today. What are they?

 

USCGC Taney a Cutter
USS Hoga a harbor tug

 

I knew the Taney (it's in Baltimore as a museum) and I knew the second one was a tug, but had no idea what the name is or where it's located.

 

All hail Ming the Merciless! thegeek is right!

The Taney is currently on display in Baltimore. The Hoga is sitting in the boneyard fleet near San Francisco waiting for its new home at the Arkansas Inland Maritime Museum. Because nothing says maritime museum like Arkansas.

 

I think Arkansas has a submarine too.

 

In 1798 the New York State legislature granted exclusive right to operate (in New York State) a device that was not invented for another
nine years. What was the device and who was the patent holder and the inventor? As a hint the device would change maritime trade
for the whole world.