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Collin
February 2nd, 2009, 02:55
Remember, these questions were composed between 1940 and 1945.
Questions
141 What is a de-gaussing girdle?
142 Why is it so called?
143 What are the main functions of a Walrus amphibian?
144 What does a seaman keep in his "ditty box"?
145 What is a "mouldy"?
146 What is a "leatherneck"?
147 What is an otter-board?
148 What is a tiggy-oggy?
149 HMS Victorious is
(a) minesweeper,
(b) a battleship,
(c) a shore establishment,
(d) an aircraft carrier,
(e) a submarine,
(f) how Capn Organ feels after he's got his leg-over once a year?
150 What is a Winger?
Answers next Sunday.
regards Collin:ernae:
Togo
February 5th, 2009, 11:08
Good God!, nobody tried this yet?
I'll give it an off-the-cuff go.
141. It's a cable, usually fitted round the hull of a ship to cancel out the magnetic signature of the vessel. Prevents a ground mine from making a bad day even worse.
142. Oh dear, errrr, magnetism is measured in gausses and it reverses the polarity --- or something like that?
143. Spotting for ships guns and fleet communications?
144. Personal items, we wont go into that!
146. A Marine?
147. A wooden board to keep a net open, (in fishing), or a sweep out away from a vessels hull.
149. (d), an aircraft carrier.
150. A rugby player?
PSULLYKEYS
February 8th, 2009, 03:34
142 - because it fit round the vessel like a woman's girdle.
143 - gunnery spotting and ship to shore communications originally, but eventually as a rescue A/C especially for downed airmen. four middle eastend and seven home squadrons flew the "shagbat" for rescue purposes, the 277 squadron rescuing 598 survivors.
145 - torpedo
150 - a newbee "taken under the wing" of an old salt.
:woot:
Collin
February 8th, 2009, 15:57
Answers
141 An electrically energized belt which neutralizes a ship's magnetism and gives her protection against magnetic mines.
142 After a German scientist, Carl Frederick Gauss (1777-1855).
143 Reconnaissance, (also air-sea rescue).
144 His personal effects.
145 A torpedo.
146 A Royal Marine.
147 A device which keeps the mine-sweep out on the quarter of the ship, when suspended from the float.
148 A Cornish pasty.
149 An aircraft carrier.
150 Young seaman, "taken under the wing" of an older seamna for instruction.
Well done you 2, most got answered.
regards Collin:ernae:
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