Recent questions tagged famous-ships-and-commanders

Description : Who designed the giant iron sailing steamship SS Great Eastern, launched in 1858?

Last Answer : Isambard Kingdom Brunel

Description : Which German battleship sank the British battlecruiser HMS Hood in 1941?

Last Answer : Bismarck

Description : Who thought he could finish a game of lawn bowling before beating the Spaniards?

Last Answer : Sir Francis Drake

Description : The Japanese naval officer who conceived the attack on Pearl Harbor was: Tojo, Yamaha, Yamamoto?

Last Answer : Admiral Yamamoto

Description : The sinking of which British liner by a German U-boat off southern Ireland in May 1915 helped bring the US into World War I?

Last Answer : RMS Lusitania

Description : The 16th-century North African Corsair Kheir-ed-Din was better known as: Barbarossa, Saladin, or Blackbeard?

Last Answer : Barbarossa

Description : What was the name of the ship heroically commanded by Sir Richard Grenville in the Azores in 1591?

Last Answer : Revenge

Description : Which American hero captured a British frigate off Scarborough in 1779?

Last Answer : John Paul Jones

Description : What was the British flagship at the Battle of Trafalgar?

Last Answer : HMS Victory

Description : Who commanded the British Grand Fleet at the Battle of Jutland: Haig, Jellicoe, Trenchard?

Last Answer : Jellicoe

Description : What was the name of the first nuclear-powered submarine?

Last Answer : USS Nautilus

Description : What was the name of the Argentine cruiser controversially sunk by the Royal Navy in 1982?

Last Answer : General Belgrano

Description : Who commanded the US Pacific Fleet in World War II? A famous US ship in the late 20th century carries his name. Was it Omar N. Bradley, Chester W. Nimitz, Douglas MacArthur?

Last Answer : Admiral Chester Nimitz

Description : Who commanded the Spanish Armada in 1588?

Last Answer : Duke of Medina Sidonia

Description : Which famous Roman commanded the Egyptian Fleet and was defeated at the Battle of Actium?

Last Answer : Mark Antony

Description : Which German pocket battleship was sunk following the Battle of the River Plate in December 1939?

Last Answer : Graf Spee

Description : Which American aircraft carrier fought at the Coral Sea and Midway battles before being sunk? Was it USS Yorktown, Nautilus, or Missouri?

Last Answer : USS Yorktown

Description : Where in 1982 did Rear Admiral Sandy Woodward lead a British task force?

Last Answer : The Falkland Islands

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