Why is a ship referred to as a *SHE*/Nautical knowledge tests!

[TXDCLfan]

An oldie, but a still a goodie! Probably a myth, but still funny!
(I hope this isn't off topic!)

"Canadians: Please divert your course 15 degrees to the South to
avoid collision.

Americans: Recommend you divert your course 15 degrees to the
North to avoid a collision.

Canadians: Negative. You will have to divert your course 15
degrees to the South to avoid a collision.

Americans: This is the Captain of a US Navy ship. I say again,
divert YOUR course.

Canadians: No, I say again, you divert YOUR course.

Americans: THIS IS THE AIRCRAFT CARRIER USS LINCOLN, THE SECOND
LARGEST SHIP IN THE UNITED STATES' ATLANTIC FLEET. WE ARE
ACCOMPANIED BY THREE DESTROYERS, THREE CRUISERS AND NUMEROUS
SUPPORT VESSELS. I DEMAND THAT YOU CHANGE YOUR COURSE 15 DEGREES
NORTH--I SAY AGAIN, THAT'S ONE FIVE DEGREES NORTH--OR
COUNTER-MEASURES WILL BE UNDERTAKEN TO ENSURE THE SAFETY OF THIS SHIP.

Canadians: This is a lighthouse. Your call."



Ex Techie

good one

 

[Southern Sailaway]

An oldie, but a still a goodie! Probably a myth, but still funny!

I have to defend my Navy buddies by pointing out that its a very old tale that isn't actually true. But it's still pretty funny.

http://www.snopes.com/military/lighthouse.asp
http://www.navy.mil/navydata/navy_legacy_hr.asp?id=174

 

[Tonka's Skipper]

I'll give the 'really hard' one a try

The approaching vessel has the right of way no matter the size.

Correct...good for you Jill, you get dinner at the Captians table next cruise!




AKK

 

[Tonka's Skipper]

From the easy's:

3. No idea!
know the rest and won't spoil them.

From the not so easy's:

4. Open sea's?
5. The port side light, and lens should be red. The same color as the drink port.

Hard one's:

1. the larger (Gross tonnage) of the two vessels??

The other's, I have no idea!
I hope it's like the crossword where the answers will be posted the next day!

Ex Techie

Hey there Techie!


3. the transsom is the stern, usually flat.

4. sorry wrong, commercail craft on inland US waters , the kitchen is a kitchen, not a galley........and to be honest,I dont know why they are called kitchens!


5. you got it.........thats a old Maritime college joke. its red, not green!.......*RED PORT WINE*



Hard ones!.

1. In the rules of the road there are lots of small *exceptions*...but Jill Jill was right.......its the approaching vessel, not a tonnage issue here!


I'll wait a day is if any other answers post, otherwise I'llpost the remaining answers Tommorow night (working this weekend)

AKK

 

[Tonka's Skipper]

An oldie, but a still a goodie! Probably a myth, but still funny!
(I hope this isn't off topic!)

"Canadians: Please divert your course 15 degrees to the South to
avoid collision.

Americans: Recommend you divert your course 15 degrees to the
North to avoid a collision.

Canadians: Negative. You will have to divert your course 15
degrees to the South to avoid a collision.

Americans: This is the Captain of a US Navy ship. I say again,
divert YOUR course.

Canadians: No, I say again, you divert YOUR course.

Americans: THIS IS THE AIRCRAFT CARRIER USS LINCOLN, THE SECOND
LARGEST SHIP IN THE UNITED STATES' ATLANTIC FLEET. WE ARE
ACCOMPANIED BY THREE DESTROYERS, THREE CRUISERS AND NUMEROUS
SUPPORT VESSELS. I DEMAND THAT YOU CHANGE YOUR COURSE 15 DEGREES
NORTH--I SAY AGAIN, THAT'S ONE FIVE DEGREES NORTH--OR
COUNTER-MEASURES WILL BE UNDERTAKEN TO ENSURE THE SAFETY OF THIS SHIP.

Canadians: This is a lighthouse. Your call."



Ex Techie

I love that old one........!

With respect to the Navy, as us Merchant and Navy guys like to poke fun at each other.....it is *Most* likely is not true......but I love to think of it as being true! *teasing*


AKK

 

[Rogillio]

Hey there Techie!


3. the transsom is the stern, usually flat.

4. sorry wrong, commercail craft on inland US waters , the kitchen is a kitchen, not a galley........and to be honest,I dont know why they are called kitchens!


5. you got it.........thats a old Maritime college joke. its red, not green!.......*RED PORT WINE*



Hard ones!.

1. In the rules of the road there are lots of small *exceptions*...but Jill Jill was right.......its the approaching vessel, not a tonnage issue here!


I'll wait a day is if any other answers post, otherwise I'llpost the remaining answers Tommorow night (working this weekend)

AKK

Love the trivia questions! Looking forward to the answers.

Here is one more. When using navigational beacons should the red lights be kept on your left or your right as you are going out to sea? Careful, it's not as easy a question as it looks.


To the OP, I think the reason ships are personified as a woman stems from pirate foreplay, "Arrrgh, prepare to be boarded!". ;-)

 

[eblong]

When the Wonder transited the Panama Canal this past January, Captain Pucket, a retired Merchant Marine and a Pilot for the Panama Canal, did several presentations. In one, he gave the top 10 reasons they call ships "she". I wasn't fast enough with my camera to get them all, but here are the Top 4 reasons.

And finally, he said his wife gave him a sure fire way to tell which side was Red and which was Green:

 

[jilljill]

Correct...good for you Jill, you get dinner at the Captians table next cruise!




AKK

Ah thanks....I'll be sure and tell him you sent me next month.

Hard ones!.

1. In the rules of the road there are lots of small *exceptions*...but Jill Jill was right.......its the approaching vessel, not a tonnage issue here!


I'll wait a day is if any other answers post, otherwise I'llpost the remaining answers Tommorow night (working this weekend)

AKK

I only know this one since we had a small incident in AK on the 8/9 cruise where there was a small vessel approaching from the right and the captain had to make a quick turn at the last minute. Lots of water from the pools and hot tubs were flowing on deck 9. Lots of people just thought we were trying to avoid some of the marine mammels that were in the water.
We later learned what had happened and the captain said that even tho the other vessel had the right of way, he should have slowed down when approaching the ship.

 

[justmestace]

Love the trivia questions! Looking forward to the answers.

Here is one more. When using navigational beacons should the red lights be kept on your left or your right as you are going out to sea? Careful, it's not as easy a question as it looks.


To the OP, I think the reason ships are personified as a woman stems from pirate foreplay, "Arrrgh, prepare to be boarded!". ;-)

On the left when going out.
Red, right, returning.


And please don't make fun of me if I'm wrong.

 

[NWDAD]

Love the trivia questions! Looking forward to the answers.

Here is one more. When using navigational beacons should the red lights be kept on your left or your right as you are going out to sea? Careful, it's not as easy a question as it looks.


To the OP, I think the reason ships are personified as a woman stems from pirate foreplay, "Arrrgh, prepare to be boarded!". ;-)

If memory serves me right it is Red Right Return

NWDad

 

[Rogillio]

On the left when going out.
Red, right, returning.


And please don't make fun of me if I'm wrong.

Yes....sort of. It's kind of a trick question. It depends on where you are in the world.

The "Red Right Returning" rule applies to the IALA-B, International Association of Lighthouse Authorities - Region B Buoyage System, which is found in the Eastern Pacific, Atlantic and Pacific Coasts of North and South America, the Great Lakes, the Caribbean, Japan, Philippines and the Republic of Korea. Most of the rest of the world follows the IALA-A system (green right returning) which is found in the remainder of the Western Pacific, Indian Ocean, Atlantic Coasts of Africa and Europe, and the Mediterranean.)


The only reason I know this is I had to take a boating course what at Kwajalein, RMI in ths south Pacific to get get my boating license. They told us the RRR did NOT apply out there and I was amazed and suprised that there are 2 international standards! Go figure!

 

[Tonka's Skipper]

Love the trivia questions! Looking forward to the answers.

Here is one more. When using navigational beacons should the red lights be kept on your left or your right as you are going out to sea? Careful, it's not as easy a question as it looks.


To the OP, I think the reason ships are personified as a woman stems from pirate foreplay, "Arrrgh, prepare to be boarded!". ;-)

OK.......old saying again.*Red Right Returning* on bouys and lights! so when out bound the red is on the left!

AKK

 

[Tonka's Skipper]

Ah thanks....I'll be sure and tell him you sent me next month.





I only know this one since we had a small incident in AK on the 8/9 cruise where there was a small vessel approaching from the right and the captain had to make a quick turn at the last minute. Lots of water from the pools and hot tubs were flowing on deck 9. Lots of people just thought we were trying to avoid some of the marine mammels that were in the water.
We later learned what had happened and the captain said that even tho the other vessel had the right of way, he should have slowed down when approaching the ship.

The Captain was right.....although rules of the road apply to every vessel....size is not a issue..........but if your in a small pleasure boat or larger yacht.........to try and force the issue with a ocean going vessel is plain suicide!

AKK

 

[Tonka's Skipper]

Yes....sort of. It's kind of a trick question. It depends on where you are in the world.

The "Red Right Returning" rule applies to the IALA-B, International Association of Lighthouse Authorities - Region B Buoyage System, which is found in the Eastern Pacific, Atlantic and Pacific Coasts of North and South America, the Great Lakes, the Caribbean, Japan, Philippines and the Republic of Korea. Most of the rest of the world follows the IALA-A system (green right returning) which is found in the remainder of the Western Pacific, Indian Ocean, Atlantic Coasts of Africa and Europe, and the Mediterranean.)


The only reason I know this is I had to take a boating course what at Kwajalein, RMI in ths south Pacific to get get my boating license. They told us the RRR did NOT apply out there and I was amazed and suprised that there are 2 international standards! Go figure!

OUCH..trying to erase my earlier post........lol....you are right.I always think of International rules which covers almost all the world, with similair inlands.but I had forgotten IALA-B.

*I BOW to your facts*........you won this one!

AKK

 

[Rogillio]

OUCH..trying to erase my earlier post........lol....you are right.I always think of International rules which covers almost all the world, with similair inlands.but I had forgotten IALA-B.

*I BOW to your facts*........you won this one!

AKK

Well I fell for you glass vs bulb question.....so we're even.


Reminds me of the question: Is the capitol of Kentucky pronouced, Looy-ville or Louis-ville?!

Answer: the capital of Kentucky is pronouced, Frankfort.

 

[Tonka's Skipper]

OK, here we go........BTW my answers are the most commonly/accepted held reasons/stories and terms. There maybe others and I would love to here other opinions!

EASY
1. The floor on a ship is a deck!

There are actual *floors* on the ship though.........they are located in the double bottom tanks and are vertical bulkheads.

2. The Bridge is the *wheelhouse*....This terms dates back to the first of the motor/steam ships. The ships where getting larger and the smoke stacks blocked the view forward. Since up until that time ships were steered and commanded from the quarter deck, aft it became a problem.

So, the wheel and command was moved forward to a platform mounted on top of a deck cabin....ie a *Bridge*

3. This has been answered and correctly.The transon is the vertical stern of a vessel.

4. The crows nests aren't really used anymore, but they were a platform mounted on the foremast, way up high, to provide good visiblity for the look out!...ei a *crows nest*

5. *Port* the left side facing forward and *Starboard* is the right side facing forward.


NOT SO EASY

1. The gunwale is the upper edge of the port and starboard shell/hull plating. The top railing of the railing are also called a *gunwale*.

I am not sure on the reason for this term, but I have read it had to do with old sailing warships mounting their guns at the edge of the decks at the hull sides.

2. The *bilge keel* are steel plates that extend outward from the hull plating where the sides of the vessel *turn* down and under the ship. they are used to reducing rolling.

3. The *cabin* term is from old sailing ship days where passinger rooms were located in small buildings mounted on the weather deck.ei *CABINS*

The *Staterooms* term comes from river passinger steamboats. The decks were named after states..ei *texas*.*Alabama* etc..........So the cabuins were numbered and the name of the deck added.*TEXAS 2*, *ALABAMA 6*.....etc.

4. American river and harbor boats call the galley a Kitchen........To the best of my knowledge this is the only area that does so!

5. YES everyone who got this, its a bit of a trick....the lense is colored and the port light is red and the starboard light is green.

6. *AB* stands for *ABLE SEAMAN*. a well trained sailor.

7. Older ships were usually powered by steam engines and the *WHISTLES* were powered by steam.which in my opinion give a wonderful tone!

The newer ships are diesel powered and use air to power thier *HORNS*.

8. When navigating, a ship officer uses the direction from the ship to a subject........ei a lighthouse or land mass or another vessel ...ei *the BEARING*. *RELATIVE BEARING* is the degrees, measured from right, ahead clock wise around the ship. 000 to 360.

9. Any of you folks who have watched the Captian, Deck Officers and Pilots on the bridge wings, you may have noticed the compass stand in the middle of the wing platform, that is a repeating compass from the main gyro compass and is used to take the *bearings*

REALLG HARD (for landlubbers)

1. This one was answered right ........the approaching vessel has the right of way, as noting by the red light she is showing your vessel, meaning you have to change course and/or speed to avoid her.

2. This goes way back to Viking and the ancent Med. galleys etc.......the steering of these vessels was by means of a oar placed trailing aft, by pushing the oar one way or the other you could change the course of the vessel. Over time, the oar was always placed on the right aft quarter, and that side became the *steering or *STARBOARD* side..

In order to prevent damage to the steering oar the vessel would always dock with the left side of the ship to the dock.....or *PORTSIDE*


I'll post the next quiz directly!

AKK

 

[Tonka's Skipper]

Here we go.........

EASY
1. What is a bed called on a ship?

2. What is the toilet called on a ship?

3. What is rope referred to on a ship?

4. What is a OS sailor?

5. What is the *quartermasters* job?


HARDER

1. While a vessel is navigating in a waterway reqiuring a Pilot, who is in command? (Hint: except the Welland canal and the Panama canal)

2. What is the name of a anchor mounted aft?

3. On a sailing vessel, how many masts does a *fully rigged ship* have?

4. What are the three reasons that the DCL vessels have 2 Funnels?

5. What is a azmith circle?.....Hint: has to do with the bearing question in the first set.

HARDEST

1. You are the deck Officer on duty on the bridge of the Wonder. Directly ahead you see 3 white lights in a vertical row, a red light to the right and a green light to the left of the white lights.....what type of vessel is it?.....what is it doing? and which way is it going?

2. Why is there few, if any lights shining on the bow of a vessel?

3. What vessel is known as the Queen of the American Merchant marine and what world record does she hold?


Have fun!

AKK

 

[Tonka's Skipper]

Well I fell for you glass vs bulb question.....so we're even.


Reminds me of the question: Is the capitol of Kentucky pronouced, Looy-ville or Louis-ville?!

Answer: the capital of Kentucky is pronouced, Frankfort.

lol...

OK....what is the grease for the relative bearing? where is it kept!

 

[Rogillio]

lol...

OK....what is the grease for the relative bearing? where is it kept!

LOL

Buddy of mine said when he was in the navy they send the new guy down to supply to get stuff. You guy would run into supply and tell them "I need a fallopian tube!" They'd say, "Naw son, you don't need a fallopian tube...."

 

[extechie rbd/wdt]

Here's my best guesses!

Ex Techie

Here we go.........

EASY
1. What is a bed called on a ship?
A rack?

2. What is the toilet called on a ship?
The head?

3. What is rope referred to on a ship?
Mooring line?

4. What is a OS sailor?

5. What is the *quartermasters* job?


HARDER

1. While a vessel is navigating in a waterway reqiuring a Pilot, who is in command? (Hint: except the Welland canal and the Panama canal)
The pilot?

2. What is the name of a anchor mounted aft?

3. On a sailing vessel, how many masts does a *fully rigged ship* have?

4. What are the three reasons that the DCL vessels have 2 Funnels?
I have no idea if the reasons are of a functional nature?

5. What is a azmith circle?.....Hint: has to do with the bearing question in the first set.

HARDEST

1. You are the deck Officer on duty on the bridge of the Wonder. Directly ahead you see 3 white lights in a vertical row, a red light to the right and a green light to the left of the white lights.....what type of vessel is it?.....what is it doing? and which way is it going?
A pilot heading toward's you?

2. Why is there few, if any lights shining on the bow of a vessel?
To not disturb vision at night

3. What vessel is known as the Queen of the American Merchant marine and what world record does she hold?


Have fun!

AKK