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Ships 117612 is a selection of 10 questions. Ships 117612 is the filename to differentiate it from other themed quizzes.
1 Which shipping forecast area did the Met Office rename “FitzRoy” in 2002?
A Finisterre. The Met Office changed the name to honour Vice-Admiral Robert FitzRoy, who founded the organisation and originated the storm warning service.
2 In which 1851 novel did Captain Ahab command the Pequod whaling ship?
A Moby-Dick by American author Herman Melville.
3 What is the name of the ship in which Jim Hawkins sails in “Treasure Island”?
A Hispaniola. Squire Trelawney charters the Hispaniola, a schooner, for the expedition to find Captain Flint’s treasure.
4 Which doomed spaceship appeared in the 1979 film Alien?
A Nostromo. The commercial towing vehicle was heading to Earth when a distress signal diverted it to a desolate planetoid.
5 What title did the SS United States receive following her maiden voyage in 1952?
A The Blue Riband – Of the 35 Atlantic liners to hold the Blue Riband, 25 were British – she set a speed record that remains unbroken to this day.
6 What was signed by General MacArthur aboard the USS Missouri in Tokyo Bay?
A Japanese Instrument of Surrender – on 2nd September 1945.
7 Which ship’s last port of call before sailing across the Atlantic in 1912 was the port of Queenstown, County Cork?
A The RMS Titanic. People now call Queenstown “Cobh.” After departing Southampton and stopping at Cherbourg, the Titanic made its final port of call at Queenstown.
8 The Royal Navy sent HMS Dauntless, a Type-45 destroyer, to patrol the waters of which island group in 2012?
A Falkland Islands. Officials described the deployment as a routine replacement for another warship rather than a response to specific tensions.
9 Who captained HMS Beagle during Charles Darwin’s voyage, and is remembered in the name of a shipping forecast area?
A (Robert) Fitzroy, remembered in the name of a shipping forecast area, FitzRoy. He was also the first person to publish a public weather forecast in 1861.
10 Sharing its name with a Scandinavian capital, with which ship did the Italian liner Andrea Doria collide in 1956, with the loss of forty-six lives?
A Stockholm. The collision occurred in thick fog, resulting in the sinking of the Andrea Doria and the loss of 46 lives, including five from the Stockholm. The incident is a well-known maritime disaster, with the Stockholm’s ice-cutting bow making a large hole in the Andrea Doria’s hull.