Mush's Quick Quiz # 01
 

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[answered] 1// Who was Alexander Marinesko?

(Soviet kpt of S-13 sinker of the wilhelm gustloff)
(sunk in Jan 1945 with loss of an estimated 9400 lives)

[answered] 2// Who were Uncle Charlie and Onkle Karl?
(lockwood and donitz)

[answered] 3// who is widely regarded as the father of marine nuclear propulsion?
(Hyman G Rickover)

[answered] 4// A large portion of the defeat of the kriegsmarine in WWII is due
to the O.I.C. what office is this? what did they do there?
( The admiralty Operational Intelligence Centre analyzed and Disseminated Intelligence
from all sources to the fleet at sea, OIC was home of the Submarine and Raider tracking
Rooms.)

[answered] 5// What is the B-dienst.?
(the German Naval Codebreaking service
who broke the No.3 Naval Cypher
used for convoy assembly and control.

[answered] 6// What was the first submarine to circumnavigate the globe
and in what year was it.
(H.M.S. Thorough completed her circumnavigation in Dec. 1957)

[answered] 7// What submarine did Major Martin Travel on?
H.M.S. Seraph delivered the deceptive Cadaver. Major
Martin was a fictious Dead Royal marine created by
British Intelligence and made famous in the book and
movie "The man who never was"

[answered] 8// How far down will a submarine dive?
( all the way to the bottom.)

[answered] 9// What Weapon was the leading cause of submarine loss in WWI?
(Mines sank both friendly and enemy sank 66 ships of all nations in WWI)

[answered] 10// What Delivery system/ platform was the single leading cause of submarine loss in WWII?
( surface ships destroyed a total of 416 ships of all nations in WWII , shore based aircraft
sank 271, shipborne aircraft sank 55 , Joint shore aircraft and ship 56 , submarines destroyed
74, mines 103 , scuttling took 451 but thats not a delivery system or platform.)

[answered] 11// What sub was the true forerunner of the modern hunter killer sub?
(The British R class of WWI was the first sub designed primarily to destroy other subs )

[answered] 12// What was the Battle of May Islands proper name?
(Operation E.C.-1)

[answered] 13// What was the first British Submarine sunk in WWII and who sank her?
(HMS Oxley which was sunk by Triton in September 10th, 1939 in a blue on blue attack)

Do I pass?

on 6 of 13 uhm...............no

But still some of those you did answer indicate a pretty good
knowledge of the subject or a quick ability in Research either
way well done none the less:up:

6 - the USS Skate, when she made that little trip around the pole in 1958?

10 - Hmm, I would guess at ships then, but if so than Aircraft came very close

9 - Whoops, WWI, wait a sec

EDIT: Either gunfire or mines, can't make up my mind

8 - the Trieste went almost 11,000m in the Mariana Trench, does that count?

11 - USS Barracuda (SSK-1)?

13 - is it the HMS Oxley which was unfortunatly sunk by Triton in September 10th, 1939?

[quote=Raptor1]6 - Still incorrect

10 - Correct guess

9 - either correct or incorrect I cant make up my mind.

8 - Incorrect

11 - Incorrect

13 - Correct ( well done )

yer up to eight of thirteen

Alright, here goes.

8--I'm pretty sure that a submarine will dive to the bottom. Whether or not you will be alive when you get there is another matter.

11--I think that you might be going after HMS Venturer. However, althought it was successful in its initial attack, no submarine during that war was designed with real ASW capabilities.

The sub will stop being a sub before it reaches the bottom...Subs don't go all the way down, mangled piles of metal and other assorted materials do

9 - I'm pretty sure It's mines

She'll go all the way to the bottom unless we stop her :D

at All // 8 all the way to the bottom was what I was after
( I had to throw one curveball )
@ Raptor a broken sub is still a sub, but in this case just
a common joke.

@ TS nope. re: 11 in this case True forerunner would imply
a sub who's chief function of design was hunting subs.
not how capable it was.

M

[edit] Re:11 TS was off by approximately thirty years.

4, Operational Intelligence Centre

9, Mine

11, USS Nautilus (SSN 571) 1958

Didn't I already say both of these?

I dont know
Did you
I was looking at the unanswered questions on the first post only

If you did you would be right also
:rotfl:

You did I am sorry I didnt see the edit for OIC
(tbh my background is set to blue)

as for nautilis you did but it remains the wrong answer

:hmm:
According this

http://www.globalsecurity.org/milita...1217-nns01.htm

Nautilus was first

USS Triton 1960 then

Still wrong :yep: ( hint re read the question )