Trivia

[Checkertail20]

I thought I would start a thread on trivia and see if people are for it.

 

[SaparotRob]

How many battle ships were in Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941?

 

[special ed]

Not enough according to Yamamoto.

 

[special ed]

O.K. - some real trivia - All PBY-6A s were built in New Orleans. There was a seaplane ramp in the lakefront sea wall where the finished planes were launched and test flown.

 

[Checkertail20]

How many battle ships were in Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941?

Eight Battleships were at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.

 

[Sabrejet]

Which post-war US military aircraft, with more than 300 produced, has never been produced as a scale model kit in any scale?

 

[SaparotRob]

Eight Battleships were at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.

Nine. Trick question.

 

[EwenS]

Nine. Trick question.

No eight.

The Pacific Fleet's eighth ninth battleship, Colorado, was in refit at Puget Sound on 7 Dec 1941.

I presume you are thinking about Utah. But Utah wasn't a battleship in 1941. In accordance with the terms of the 1930 London Naval Treaty she had been stripped of her main armament and allowed to become a target ship. Later her role was extended to include use as an AA gunnery training ship. As such she ceased being BB-31 and was reclassified as AG-16 on 1 July 1931. Some of the Japanese TB pilots mistook her for a carrier on 7 Dec 1941 and put 2 torpedoes into her. This is what the 1930 Treaty specified should happen to her.

Vessels to be converted to target use​

(a) A vessel to be disposed of by conversion to target use exclusively shall be considered incapable of warlike service when there have been removed and landed, or rendered unserviceable on board, the following:​

(1) All guns;​

(2) All fire control tops and instruments and main fire control communication wiring;​

(3) All machinery for operating gun mountings or turrets;​

(4) All ammunition, explosives, mines, torpedoes and torpedo tubes;​

(5) All aviation facilities and accessories.

​

This is a photo of her after her last refit in Aug 1941. Wooden sheds were fitted over the 5" mounts when she acted as a bombing target, which is how she appeeared on 7 Dec 1941 (see second photo).

http://www.navsource.org/archives/01/013102a.jpg

http://www.navsource.org/archives/01/013101b.jpg

 

[SaparotRob]

I realized my faux pas after I started listing the BBs.
D'OH!

 

[Checkertail20]

Name the European city that had a American Civil War naval battle off it's coast and 80 years later was taken by the Allies in World War 2?

 

[Sabrejet]

Which post-war US military aircraft, with more than 300 produced, has never been produced as a scale model kit in any scale?

Too difficult then....?

 

[GTX]

Which post-war US military aircraft, with more than 300 produced, has never been produced as a scale model kit in any scale?

I'm curious