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Collin
August 9th, 2009, 15:48
Remember, these questions were composed between 1940 and 1945.

Questions

401 What is "dead reckoning"?

402 The National Maritime Museum is at-

a Portsmouth,

b Greenwich,

c Plymouth?

403 What rating is a RN Gunner?

404 What was the film made by Noel Coward about the RN?

405 What kind of naval craft is a "Stringbag"?

406 What is the Captain's boat called?

407 What does a seaman call ropes?

408 How does one "pay one's debts with the topsail sheet"?

409 What is the badge of a Petty Officer?

410 What class of destroyer is named after an English sport?

Answers next Sunday.

regards Collin:ernae:
hewman100
August 10th, 2009, 02:12
402. Greenwich
404. "In Which We Serve"
405. An aircraft, the Fairey Swordfish
Dirtman
August 10th, 2009, 08:10
409 What is the badge of a Petty Officer?

- two crossed anchors


Ya, I know ... I did it again ..... please don't send me to the Vet for a frontal lobotomy!!!

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Togo
August 11th, 2009, 13:06
407. Sheets
410. Hunt
Captain Tenneal
August 11th, 2009, 13:06
Ya, I know ... I did it again ..... please don't send me to the Vet for a frontal lobotomy!!!
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Maybe you need a rear-end ASSecktomy :173go1:
PSULLYKEYS
August 13th, 2009, 16:06
401 the process of estimating one's current position based upon a previously determined position, or fix (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fix_%28position%29), and advancing that position based upon known or estimated speeds over elapsed time, and course.:kilroy:
PSULLYKEYS
August 14th, 2009, 10:44
407 - lines
Collin
August 17th, 2009, 02:04
Answers.

401 A reckoning kept to keep the theoretical position of a ship, without landfalls or sights.

402 Greenwich.

403 A Warrant Officer.

404 "In which we serve".

405 A Fairey Swordfish.

406 A gig.

407 Lines.

408 One doesn't - it is the equivalent of going off without paying.

409 Crossed anchors and Crown.

410 The Hunt class.

Well done all.

regards Collin:ernae: