Marine Trivia Quiz 169

Compiled by Jim Broadside

1. The first venue for the (now) Sydney International Boat Show was:
-   Darling Harbour   
-   Rosehill Racecourse
-   Royal Agricultural Society Showground
2. The owner and organiser of the Sydney International Boat Show is:
-   NSW Maritime
-   Boating Industry Association of NSW
-   Sydney Heritage Fleet
3. Sydney Harbour has a coastline and area of:
-   Over 240nm and 35 square km respectively
-   Some 210nm and 31 square km respectively
-   Almost 200nm and 28 square km respectively
4. The Defence establishment on North Head until 1997 was:
-   Shore establishment HMAS Watson
-   The School of Artillery
-   Maritime Command Australia
5. The first nuclear powered aircraft carrier USS Enterprise was launched on 24 September 1960 at:
-   Brooklyn Navy Yard, New York
-   San Diego Harbour, California
-   Newport, Virginia
6. The RAN has approved a shark deterrent that:
-   Discharges an offensive chemical
-   Produces a high pitched noise
-   Emits electric impulses
7. A ‘gale’ is a wind:
-   Over 22 knots
-   Blowing between 34 and 47 knots
-   Causing discomfort to small boats
8. Gold was recovered from RMS Niagara sunk off  New Zealand in 1940 using:
-   Two divers with special high tensile suits
-   A diving bell to place explosives and a grab worked from the salvage vessel
-   A bathysphere with arms that could weld and lift
9. The three longest rivers in the world are:
-   Amazon, Nile, Congo
-   Nile, Amazon, Yangtze
-   Nile, Mississippi-Missouri, Amazon
10. Under the new standard for PFDs AS4758, the minimum requirement for offshore use is:
-   Level 150
-   Level 100
-   Level 50

Last month’s winners –  

Martin Walsh, North Rocks, NSW; Yvette Evans, South Melbourne, VIC; Marianne Callaghan, Caloundra, QLD.

Answers to Quiz No 168

    1.   The first four Governors of NSW were Royal Navy Captains Phillip, Hunter, King and Bligh.
    2.   RAN seaplane carrier HMAS Albatross built in 1928 was a victim of cost cutting in the Depression and was paid off in 1933.
    3.   The 20th Australian Women’s Keelboat Regatta Performance Handicap Prize, held on Port Phillip Bay was won by Nouannie skippered by Tanya Stanford.
    4.   The name of US young sailor Abby Sunderland’s boat, which she had to abandon in the Southern Ocean, was Wild Eyes.
    5.   NSW Maritime requires a lifebuoy with 30m line be carried in all vessels 12m and above.
    6.   The only Tasmanian yacht to have twice won the Sydney-Hobart race was cutter Westward, which was overall winner in 1947 and 1948, under G.D. Gibson as skipper.
    7.   On 15 August 1914 the Panama Canal was officially opened. The first construction attempt began in 1880 and the ultimate death toll was 27 500.
    8.   The maximum blood alcohol level for a recreational boat driver in NSW is under 0.05.
    9.   The Woolgoolga (NSW) open ocean jetty was built in 1892, closed in 1952 and demolished in 1955.
    10.   A Viking Longship usually had one mast which was lowered when under oars.