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Ships 117612 is a selection of 10 questions. Ships 117612 is the filename to differentiate it from other Themed Questions. Feel free to use any of these questions and answers for your own quizzes. Just keep in mind that you cannot republish them in any format.
1 Which famous British clipper’s name comes from the Scots Gaelic meaning a short undergarment or chemise?
A The Cutty Sark.
2 The Victoria or Nao Victoria (Spanish for “Victory”), in 1522, was the first ship to circumnavigate the world and was part of whose fleet?
A Ferdinand Magellan
3 Which steamship, in 1847, was the first to circumnavigate the globe?
A HMS Driver – a Driver-class wooden paddle sloop of the Royal Navy
4 What happened to the Italian ocean liner MS Achille Lauro on 7th October 1985?
A Hijacked by Palestinian terrorists off the coast of Egypt
5 Which lighthouse west of the Scilly Isles, marks the Eastern end of the North Atlantic shipping route at which the time for the Blue Riband is measured?
A Bishop Rock – The Blue Riband is an unofficial accolade given to the passenger liner crossing the Atlantic Ocean in regular service with the record highest average speed
6 Who did a loblolly boy assist aboard British and American warships during the Age of Sail?
A Surgeon’s Assistant – The name derives from a porridge traditionally served to sick or injured crew members
7 Which ship rescued the majority of the survivors of the Titanic sinking in 1912?
A RMS Carpathia – a Cunard Line transatlantic passenger steamship built by Swan Hunter & Wigham Richardson in their shipyard in Wallsend, England
8 Which fictional character travelled his voyages on a merchant ship called the Antelope?
A Gulliver – Gulliver’s Travels, written in 1726 by Jonathan Swift
9 ‘Captain Hoseason’ of the ship the ‘Covenant’ features in which Robert Louis Stevenson novel, made into a film starring Michael Caine?
A Kidnapped
10 What was the name of Captain Robert Falcon Scott’s ship on his ill-fated 1903 Antarctic expedition?
A Terra Nova