Marine Trivia Quiz 143
Compiled by Jim Broadside
1. To ‘frap’ is to:
_ Edge a vessel against a wharf
_ Back the stern of a vessel into a dock
_ Bind together or prevent from blowing loose
2. Halley’s Comet returns over the earth at intervals of:
_ Around 84 years
_ Around 75 years
_ Around 66 years
3. The first official race conducted by the Royal Freshwater Bay Yacht Club in Perth was in:
_ 1897
_ 1907
_ 1887
4. The Sanctuary Cove (Qld) Boatshow 2008 featured:
_ Close to 700 boats and 355 exhibitors
_ Close to 900 boats and 455 exhibitors
_ Over 900 boats and 495 exhibitors
5. The Victoria Harbour Teams racing at Docklands (Vic) in April was won by:
_ St Leonards College
_ Woodleigh College
_ The Peninsula School
6. A ‘Parish-rigged’ vessel has:
_ A purpose-built chapel
_ Bad gear aloft and poor food
_ At least one dominant mast
7. A timber ‘pillow’ was used to:
_ Punish offenders by denying them sleep
_ Chain large animals being transported
_ Support the inner end of a wooden Bowsprit
8. A ‘whelp’ is a:
_ Type of barnacle
_ Projection on a capstan
_ A cocktail comprising whiskey, egg and port
9. In the International Code of Signals, the flag O (Oscar) means:
_ Keep clear of me
_ I require medical assistance
_ Man overboard
10. Christopher Columbus’ ship Santa Maria:
_ Was wrecked off Haiti late in 1492
_ Returned to Spain and became an exhibition ship
_ Burnt in the Gulf of Mexico in 1495
Last month’s winners
– Jacqueline Faulkner, Umina, NSW; Leonard Everitt, Beaumaris, VIC.
Answers to Quiz No 142
1. The last vessel to be claimed by Bellambi reef was collier SS Munmorah on 17 May 1949, owned by the Wallarah Coal company.
2. The 2008 Sydney International Boat Show will be held from 31 July to 5 August at Darling Harbour.
3. The first allied submarine commander to be awarded the Victoria Cross for operations in the Dardanelles was Lieutenant Norman Holbrook, RN (B11) in December 1914. Lieutenant Commander Boyle (E14) received the Victoria Cross in May 1915, while Stoker (AE2) was awarded a DSO after the war when he returned from captivity by the Turks.
4. A ‘kingpost’ is a short mast near a cargo hatch used to work an onboard cargo derrick.
5. A ‘land breeze’ blows from the land to the sea in the evening when temperature over the land becomes less than that over the sea.
6. A ‘mudhook’ is a slang term for an anchor.
7. ‘Inertial navigation’ is based on dead reckoning of speed and direction travelled from a known start point. It was developed and refined for nuclear submarines.
8. The America’s Cup was named after the schooner America, built in 1851 by a syndicate headed by John Stevens, Commodore of New York Yacht Club.
9. A submarine is able to dive because its diving planes and momentum allow it to be driven downwards, after flooding the ballast tanks has produced almost neutral buoyancy.
10. The oldest yacht club in Western Australia is Royal Perth Yacht Club, founded in 1841. The 1983 America’s Cup winner Australia II represented the Club and it staged the America’s Cup defence in 1987.
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