Battleships: Past and Present #4; HMS Warrior

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1. HMS Warrior was a battleship to be feared when she was launched in 1861. Which of the statements below best describes her status when she was commissioned in 1862? The largest battleship in the world The fastest battleship in the world All of these The most heavily armed and armored battleship in the world

2. Who made the following statement regarding the HMS Warrior: "A black, vicious, ugly customer as ever I saw, whale-like in size, and with as terrible a row of incisor teeth as ever closed on a French frigate."? France’s Emperor Napoleon III The British author, Charles Dickens Herman Melville talking about Moby Dick France’s Admiral Villineauve

3. In 1858, when HMS Warrior was being planned, Surveyor of the Royal Navy, Admiral Sir Baldwin Wake-Walker made the following statement: "Iron hulls will never replace wooden ships." True False

4. HMS Warrior was, in some respects, still a partly wooden sailing ship. She did indeed still have sails, but which of the following statements is true of her hull construction? She was built around an iron plated timber framed box She had an iron frame covered in replaceable timbers She was really a wooden ship “clad” in iron She was all iron with wooden decks

5. Advanced propulsion features made HMS Warrior the fastest battleship of her day at over 14 knots top speed under both steam or sail! Which of the statements below is NOT accurate of her propulsion? She has a steam engine and screw propeller She has huge paddle wheels on each side of the hull She has three masts with a 48,000 sf sail plan She has a long narrow hull for speed

6. HMS Warrior’s guns were unique and supremely powerful due to which of the following factors? (10) Breech loading 110 pounder rifled cannon All of these (36) guns on one stable deck (26) traditional 68 pounder muzzle loaders

7. HMS Warrior was a very successful battleship for her day for all the reasons stated below except for one. Which one did NOT contribute to her ultimate success in the long run? Her technical innovations were daunting She was a strategic deterrent to any nation She launched the battleship arms race that lasted through WWII She was tactically superior to any ship afloat

8. HMS Warrior is the oldest floating battleship in existence, and although her active service was short, she never really had a lot of time just sitting doing nothing. When she was “rescued” from ignominy in 1979 and began restoration into a museum ship, what was she doing? She was rotting in the Thames River She was an oil dock She was a tender for diesel submarines She was a wealthy Brit’s “Love Boat”

9. HMS Warrior survived a somewhat unusual launching in 1860. What happened? She broke loose and hit another ship She was too long for the river and stuck in the other bank She entered the water and sunk She froze to the way and would not slide

10. HMS Warrior is a floating museum ship, at the Portsmouth Historic Dockyard in England, along with which other ships? HMS Victory and Vasa HMS Victory and the Mary Rose HMS Victory only HMS Victory and Dry Dock #2